Purists have for years mocked the Hollywood portrayal of military UAVs.  The 2007 Transformers, for example, featured an afterburning Predator.

The Predator has a propeller, so that’s like having an afterburning Cessna 172.

Now, however, reality has started to catch up with fiction.  The Air Force has reportedly purchased — and deployed, its single Predator C, which has a jet engine in place of the propeller.

It does not appear to be an afterburning engine, but there’s still time yet…