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Armed Grey Eagles Prepare To Deploy To Afghanistan

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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

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By Ann Roosevelt The Army's preparing to deploy the Quick Reaction Capability (QRC) 2 to Afghanistan in the fall--with Hellfire weapons, service officials said. "The equipment has already been stationed," Col. Gregory Gonzalez, project manager, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, said in a media roundtable at the recent AUVSI conference in Denver. The major difference between the two capabilities will be that the QRC Grey Eagles will be armed with Hellfire missiles. QRC1 had no weapons. "We did a limited user test…

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