Jet Black Ellington Field JRB MQ-9 147th AW Jet Black Lithograph by Squadron Posters!
Whether it is protecting the shores of the United States from enemy attack, or carrying the Stars and Stripes into combat, Houston’s famed 147th Attack Wing has consistently performed its duties in a typical outstanding manner. Today’s 147th Attack Wing provides MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) combat support sorties which provide theater and national-level leadership with critical real-time Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance and Air-to-Ground Munitions precision strike capability.
The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (formerly named Predator B) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of remote controlled or autonomous flight operations, developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) primarily for the United States Air Force (USAF). The MQ-9 and other UAVs are referred to as Remotely Piloted Vehicles/Aircraft (RPV/RPA) by the USAF to indicate their human ground controllers. The MQ-9 is the first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance. In 2006, the then–Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force General T. Michael Moseley said: “We’ve moved from using UAVs primarily in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance roles before Operation Iraqi Freedom, to a true hunter-killer role with the Reaper.









