The air force has reduced its purchases of state-of-the-art mq-9 reapers and cancelled development of its ambitious mq-x jet-powered attack drone .

空军已经削减了先进的mq-9收割机的购买费用，并且取消了雄心勃勃的mq-x喷气式攻击靶机改进计划。

That is how the pentagon can afford to buy so many ravens , compared with just a few dozen predators and reapers each year .

相比每年只有几十个的predators掠夺者和reapers收割者，这就是为何五角大楼选择购买如此多的ravens。

Every day , the air force must process almost 1500 hours of full-motion video and another 1500 still images , much of it from predators and reapers on around-the-clock combat air patrols .

空军每天处理接近1500小时的全动态影像和1500幅静态图像，大部分是由“捕食者”和“收割机”不分昼夜的空中巡逻获得的。

Missile-armed predators , the larger reapers carrying bombs and missiles , and stealthy , unarmed sentinel spy drones , operated jointly by the cia and the military , are still america 's weapon of choice for hunting terrorist leaders .

携带导弹的捕食者，更大型一些的携带炸弹和导弹的收割者，还有由中情局和军方共同指挥的不携带武器的哨兵隐形无人侦察机，这些无人机仍然是猎杀恐怖分子头目的武器之选。