Military drones or unmanned aerial vehicles have been around for a long time and their first tactical use with reconnaissance cameras was tested by Israeli Intelligence in the late 1960s. Israel continued to develop the technology, successfully using it to neutralize Syrian air defences at the start of the 1982 Lebaon War. The U.S. military also adopted it, successfully using the Israeli-developed Pioneer UAV for real-time intelligence over Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo during the 1990s. It was only a matter of time until weapons were first deployed on U.S. drones and this occurred immediately after 9/11 when Osama bin Laden was observed from an unarmed Predator. They, along with their larget successor the Reaper, were subsequently equipped with Hellfire missiles, attacking a host of targets across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen and Libya.