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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Drones Nigeria bought from Israel grounded, reveals manufacturers

Aerostar tactical UAVWith agency report Aircraft manufacturers have revealed how Nigeria bought Israeli surveillance drones years ago, which are now grounded owing to poor maintenance.

Had the planes handy, they would have been deployed to hunt Boko Haram, especially on the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, they stated.

“To the best of our knowledge, these systems aren’t operational,” Tsur Dvir, marketing officer for Aeronautics Defense Systems, a firm based south of Tel Aviv, Israel that supplied Nigeria with Aerostar unmanned aerial vehicles, told Reuters yesterday.

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