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Operational Demands Limit Readiness Of Air Force RPA Operators

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Operational Demands Limit Readiness Of Air Force RPA Operators
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The constant pace of Air Force unmanned aircraft operations in war zones is limiting the readiness of the crews that operate these systems, the head of Air Combat Command said this week.The Air Force is “pretty good” at performing the missions with the Remote Piloted Aircraft (RPA) despite their original assignation as experimental systems “but we have limited readiness across the full mission set that the aircraft are capable of performing,” Gen. James “Mike” Holmes said on Tuesday…

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