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Old 08-23-2016, 11:04   #12
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Originally Posted by Brush Okie View Post
Having worked with Army Drones a very small amount at least some of them deploy overseas. They launch and recover their drones on their own. The ones I was around were interesting in the fact their recovery system was very much like an aircraft carrier.
I think that I'm wrong about the Black Hawk pilots transitioning to drones. That was my wife's thoughts since she has mostly seen Predator and Reaper (MQ-1 and MQ-9) drones flying around here. But we also have RC and MC-12s here. I'd bet that they were transitioning to them and not the drones.

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