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Coast Guard Surveys Market for Land-Based, Long-Range UAS

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 5th, 2017

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The Coast Guard issued a Request for Information for land-based high-endurance drone aircraft to help it examine the potential of these systems to patrol vast ocean areas for illegal drug shipments.Earlier this year Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft said the service wants to obtain land-based, forward-deployed unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to patrol the transit zones in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea. Traffickers, typically operating out of Columbia in South America, use ships to carry their illegal drugs in…

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