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Spain Makes MQ-9 Reaper Purchase Official, Awards General Atomics $240 Million Contract

Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

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Spain Makes MQ-9 Reaper Purchase Official, Awards General Atomics $240 Million Contract

An armed MQ-9 Reaper taxis down a runway. Photo: U.S. Air Force

Spain on Wednesday officially chose the General Atomics Predator B, designated the MQ-9 Reaper by the U.S. Air Force, to perform airborne surveillance and reconnaissance missions.The $243 million foreign military sales (FMS) contract was approved by the State Department last year and includes the delivery of four MQ-9 Block 5 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 20 embedded global positioning system/inertial guidance units, two mobile ground control stations(GCS) , five multi-spectral targeting systems and five Block 20A Lynx synthetic aperture radars. The…

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