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Air Force To Grow RC-12 Fleet In Response To Burgeoning ISR Demand

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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

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By Marina Malenic The Air Force plans to purchase and modify nearly 40 Beech C-12 Huron manned aircraft over the next year and could purchase even more of the lightweight twin turboprop planes in the following five years to provide more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to documents detailing the service's upcoming six-year spending plan. Last month, Air Force and Air National Guard officials establishd a temporary mission qualification training detachment for…

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