UK Reaper fleet set to secure new expeditionary role

摘要

The UK has yet to accept its extra batch of five General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Reaper air vehicles, which will double the Royal Air Force's fleet for operations carried out inside Afghanistan. "We are waiting on the delivery of the air vehicles, which are in final acceptance, but all the other elements, such as the training, people and [ground control station] cabins are in place," says Wg Cdr Damian Killeen, officer commanding the RAF's 13 Sqn. "We are expecting they'll be delivered in the early days of 2014," he said during a media event at the unit's Waddington home in Lincolnshire on 15 January.