An MQ-1B Predator remotely piloted aircraft takes off on a training mission, May 13, 2013. Predators can perform the following missions and tasks: intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, close air support, combat search and rescue, precision strike, buddy-lase, convoy/raid overwatch, route clearance, target development, and terminal air guidance. (U.S. Air Force photo by 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing/Released)