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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

RAF Reaper may be armed 'within weeks'

Armed combat operations by the UK Royal Air Force's newly acquired General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are imminent, Jane's has learned.

Jonathan Barratt, team leader for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) strategic unmanned air vehicles experiment integrated project team, told Jane's: "The aircraft will be armed within a matter of weeks, with AGM-114P Hellfire missiles and GBU-12 Paveway bombs that we have acquired under a separate United States Foreign Military Sales [FMS] contract."

Barratt was a speaker at a briefing on the wider UK Reaper procurement and operations programme hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London on 9 April.

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