Jake skips away into the trees to take down a couple of fighter helicopters with a single LEAF.
Worse yet, it casts any real effort to build long-term security for the region under the cold shadow of expensive surveillance planes and fighter helicopters.
The stirring, masterfully constructed documentary "Apache Warrior" makes intriguing use of three recovered flight tapes from a squadron of U.S. Apache fighter helicopters that launched a deep attack in Iraq at the start of the war in March 2003.
In the vast armada of sleek jet fighters, helicopter gunships and cruise missiles that have pounded Afghanistan from the air, the unmanned drone known as the Predator is a decidedly ugly duckling.
While 47 days of American air strikes have been carried out by jet fighters, helicopter gunships and cruise missiles, an unmanned drone called the Predator may be the crucial weapon in the hunt for Mr. bin Laden and the Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, believed to be in Kandahar, his last refuge in the south.
Russian fighters, helicopters and surveillance drones fly along the border and sometimes over it.
Cargo planes, bombers, jet fighters, helicopters and drones are stacked up in the skies, waiting to land.
Up to 100 student pilots will be told the news on Tuesday with some of them only a few hours away from becoming fully qualified to fly fighters, helicopters and transport aircraft.
The museum houses over 30 aircraft including cargo haulers, fighters, helicopters, a presidential aircraft, and even a bomber.
A number of NATO member states also pledged to provide additional assets, including fighters, helicopters, infantry companies as well as training teams that will mentor the Afghan National Army.
