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Credit: Reaper: USAF
Italy is in line to be the second country after the U.K. to receive U.S.-made MQ-9 Reapers that can fire weapons, and the first country to receive them after a change in U.S. policy in February that made the export of armed UAVs possible. On Nov. 4, the U.S. State Department approved the potential...
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