Topic: War and Peace News - on February 4, 2012 at 1:11:00 PM CET
NATO to Acquire First Fleet of Unarmed Drones
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed Friday to acquire its first fleet of unarmed drones under a long-sought deal that defense officials said would help fill a gap in alliance surveillance capabilities exposed by last year's military campaign in Libya.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the agreement, reached at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, calls for a group of 13 nations to acquire five Global Hawk reconnaissance drones, which are produced by Northrop Grumman.
The 13 countries participating in the project are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the U.S.
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