Mr Grim... as much as it pains me, i have to agree with recc_fac on this one it is indeed called a cas brief now!
I think that B words est of the MQ9 dropping all that ordnance is a tad hopeful! I know as of last year it was averaging about one a month....with a hit rate of 100% every two months
too much time in down town LV if you ask me!! No offence guys....
I'm not saying what doctrine / training uses (only do ops, don't you know) but I have heard a lot (50-100?) of operational 9-lines in the last year and every single one has been called a 9-line by both JTACs of many nationalities and aircrew from a large range of aircraft. Maybe you are right and everyone in the coalition in Afghanistan is wrong!
Second point - if you are implying that Reaper has a hit rate of 50% and/or that UK FJs employ anywhere near the same amount of weapons as Reaper then you are seriously misinformed (again I am talking about ops, Garvie / HWD don't count).