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Army UAS Pass Million Flying Hour Mark

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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

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By Ann Roosevelt The Army yesterday said its unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have amassed more than one million hours of flight time, with roughly 88 percent of those hours flown in Iraq or Afghanistan. The UAS keeps soldiers safe and gives them the tools they need to defeat adversaries, said Col. Gregory Gonzalez, project manager for Army UAS, in the Pentagon courtyard, with AAI's Corp's [TXT] Shadow, AeroVironment's Raven and the Extended Range Multi-Purpose UAV, produced by General Atomics Aeronautical…

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