Debate Soars Over UAV in Civil Airspace

Credit: U.S. AIR FORCE
The U.K. Defense Ministry recently announced that it was no longer planning to keep its General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems Inc. MQ-9A Reaper force as a permanent part of the Royal Air Force. Economy was cited as a reason but there is also an overriding operational concern: The RAF does not know...

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