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| UK to buy 10 more General Atomics Reaper UAVs |
| 2008-01-08 |
| The UK Ministry of Defence plans to expand to 13 its fleet of General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (Predator B) unmanned air vehicles, with the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency having announced the receipt of a $1 billion foreign military sales request for 10 airframes, plus related sensors, equipment and support. Notified to US Congress on 19 December, the possible sale will also include five ground control stations, nine General Atomics Lynx synthetic aperture radar/ground moving target indication sensors and nine MTS-B multi-spectral targeting system payloads. Produced by Raytheon, the latter system is a turret-housed design which incorporates electro-optical/infrared, laser designator and target illumination sensors. |
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