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Three A-10s faced off against three MQ-9 Reaper drones and an RQ-170 Sentinel in the replay from Eglin’s simulator.
“The first two Reapers were very sloppy,” Jeremy observed as they watched.
Miranda almost looked away to inspect him. Mike was the pilot—though only of small, general aviation planes.
Jeremy wasn’t a pilot at all. Yet he could see that the Reaper pilots had indeed been sloppy.
The cat-and-mouse game of the final Warthog and the lone Sentinel played out across the screen.
“Again, a very fine maneuver,” Campos concluded as the A-10 spiraled out of sight into the ocean.
Kiley cleared his throat again. “Same trainee pilot, Poet Blake. But again, that wasn’t all a simulation. We lost three of our top trainer pilots this afternoon in the same area. Less than five hours ag
