With armed drones now deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen, there?s huge demand in the U.S. military and CIA to acquire ?hunter-killer? unmanned aircraft such as Predators and Reapers.
But one branch of the military is generally keeping its distance.
In the fall of 2009, the Navy took delivery of three new MQ-9 Reapers, a modernized version of the old Predators manufactured by General Atomics. It was the Navy?s first batch of Reapers, and all were deployed for their first mission to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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