Three MQ-9 Reapers head to Hawaii for maritime-focused exercise

By Briana Reilly / September 27, 2021 at 10:30 AM
Three MQ-9 Reapers are participating in a weeks-long exercise in Hawaii that allows the drones to showcase their maritime tactics, techniques and procedures, ahead of a planned transfer of a handful of the aircraft to Marine Corps Base Hawaii in the years ahead. As part of the Agile Combat Employment Reaper exercise, which is being held at the base between Sept. 8 and Oct. 8, two MQ-9s flew to Hawaii for the first time from the continental United States --...

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