Overhead an almost silent drone aircraft with a four-foot wingspan transmits images of the buildings below.
In the summer of 2009, U.S. forces discovered "days and days and hours and hours" of the drone footage on the laptops of Iraqi insurgents.
If a squad is moving through the desert, for example, a drone aircraft might fly ahead of the soldiers and send back pictures of enemy troops lying in wait.
I listened to the engine drone on until I fell asleep.
They have a point. In nature, drone bees are poor, useless things that produce no honey and have no sting.
Last year it had 2, 182 orders from the army for its Raven drone, which weighs four pounds with a wingspan of four-and-a-half feet.
It might prefer, for example, to strike the fugitive Pakistani Taliban there using American drone attacks.
Mehsud was killed in August last year when a missile fired by a suspected U.S drone targeted his hideout in Pakistan's volatile South Waziristan tribal region.
For Mr Mehsud, who took over the leadership of the Pakistani Taliban last year after Baitullah Mehsud was killed by an American drone attack, the video is an obvious boost.
They're often alone on a floor, cleaning a vacant room, back to the door, the vacuum's drone silencing all sound.
People saying it could be a drone.
Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq says it was to avenge U.S. drone attacks and Pakistani military operations in the tribal areas near the Afghan border.
The drone of insects is interrupted by a high-pitched drill and the clang of hammers as workers put the finishing touches to the perfectly aligned steel tracks.
Pakistan has also demanded that the US cease drone attacks on its tribal area, which have increased over the last year, allegedly killing several "high-value" targets as well as many civilians.
The third drone attack within a week, the strikes have killed a total of 18 suspected militants.
The mere rhythmic drone of a photocopier or the rumble from a hairdryer is enough to set her off.
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