A key House panel recommends the Air Force add eight MQ-9 Reapers to its fiscal year 2014 budget request as the panel is not happy with the service’s plan for ramping down production of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) said in its FY ’14 report the idea was to reduce the MQ-9 production rate in a “more orderly and less disruptive manner” from 48 in FY ’12, to 36 in FY ’13 and, finally, to a…
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