The United States is training Australian airmen to operate the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper and five airmen are already stationed at Holloman Air Force Base, NM, to receive pilot and sensor operator instruction, the Australian government has announced. According to a Feb. 23 press statement, the Australian Defence Force is keenly interested in unmanned aerial systems technology and the training program “provides a cost-effective method to increase the ADF's understanding of complex UAS operations and how this capability can be...
