Originally Posted by
Wensleydale
and why on earth did we stick with the American name of "Reaper" which implies that it is there to assassinate!
Really?
How do you arrive at that conclusion, other than your own assumptions with biases noted in the rest of your post.
Ever heard of the Grim Reaper? He is the image of death.
That version of the Predator is a machine of war. In war, things get killed. Assassination is a very small subset of the general category "killing other people." Your rhetoric and overstatement is noted.
We are on the Military Aircrew sub forum, right?
(In an "on your side" point I can see why the Brits might wish to use their own name for their own birds. Call it whatever you like, it need not be Reaper if that sound doesn't fit right to the British ear ... )