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Thursday, February 02, 2012

NATO To OK Global Hawks, Announce Interim Missile Defense Capability

RQ-4A Global HawkAfter more than 15 years, NATO will finally grant approval to buy five Global Hawk Block 40s to help plug the gaps in the alliance's intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance that grew so glaring during the Libya operation.

In addition to that important news for the 28 nations that comprise NATO, the alliance will announce at the Chicago NATO summit in May that its territorial missile defense program has met its interim capability, an important milestone for NATO and for the United States' Phased Adaptive Approach.

Word on all this came from several senior NATO officials during briefings here.

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