First Afghan Watchkeeper Mission Supported U.S. Marines
LONDON— The first operational sortie by the U.K.’s new Watchkeeper unmanned aerial vehicle in Afghanistan helped the U.S. Marine Corps eliminate machine gun-armed insurgents. The Sept. 16 operation occurred just two weeks after the first training flights by the Thales-made Watchkeeper in the country...
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