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CBP Takes Delivery of First Maritime Predator UAS; Coast Guard Participating

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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Monday took delivery of its sixth Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), the latest aircraft being the first maritime variant, which will go through what the agency hopes will be an abbreviated operational test and evaluation phase early next year before beginning operations next spring in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. The first General Atomics-built MQ-9 Predator B Guardian will be based out of Cape Canaveral Air Station,…

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