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Saturday, September 15, 2012

German Heron UAV unit nears 1,000th mission

Heron 1 UAV |Rheinmetall Airborne Systems expects to complete the 1,000th operational flight of a leased Israel Aerospace Industries Heron 1 unmanned air vehicle in Afghanistan during October, as the German government nears a decision on whether to buy a medium-altitude, long-endurance surveillance system outright.

Flown in Afghanistan under a service provision deal since June 2010 in support of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, Germany's three Heron air vehicles had logged a combined 10,800 flight hours by the start of this month.

Used in conjunction with two ground control stations, the aircraft are flown from Mazar-e-Sharif air base.

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