RAF Pilot Unleashes Hell on Taliban From The Comfort in Lincolnshire First Glimpse Inside Drone HQSitting before a bank of flickering computer screens and controls, the RAF pilot flies a drone in the skies above Afghanistan.But the airman is not operating the £10million Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from the warzone -- or even the US.Instead, he is 8,000 miles away in a hi-tech control hub in a remote part of East Anglia -- poised to order the controversial robot to carry out airstrikes using its fearsome array of Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs.