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Netherlands to locate Reapers in Caribbean

by Gareth Jennings

The Netherlands will base its soon-to-be received General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc MQ-9A Reaper medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Caribbean region.

The Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on 6 January that, with the first of four Block 5-standard Reapers set to be delivered to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) in February, the platform is to be located on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao for testing and civil-support operations, including in the field of counter-narcotics. As previously reported, the Netherlands will not arm its Reapers.

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