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abiraw!!!!sabi kuno ni reno lim ta makakatandem kuno ikadi ni boyet si joe gonzales kapitan ikan centro mas makikita kuno kung sisay kan ararum kan resources mi makina sa politika nguana !! 1,500 kuno usad a boto pag pumantay sagaran na kuno sagkod sayn kan rarum ikadi ni cherry mella sampal dawa pa kuno siya bubuan ni joey pirak di kuno abut!!   abeer!!! aw kadi kung puro man sana kamu putnay mga lim brothers iyan sa mga plano niya pwes tataya ako ki cherry !!! makita !!!! I now want this day the presence of cherry’s FS acccounts on my FS accountto help her out and see whats on my holistic and tacit minds do the mapping. if anobody right there in polangui has any knowlegde to bridge me to her then do it right away. and it’s all must be recognizable!!! i want cherry to win this fight!!! naaambugan sana ako idi sa mga lim a kadi!!!! makita kan mga putnay ninyo lim brothers!!!

 least greedy  Albay vice- Governor Brando Mella Sael- bakit? kasi biktima siya ng  traditional na Political gridlock. sabi nga ni robin dapat sa kanya kumain ng skyflakes para magkaroon ng break! di man lang po ito pinaporma ni joey sa 3 taon nito sa pagka-bise gob ng Albay. kasi ikanga! pag may masasarap na pagkain sa hapag sino unang titikim at sino kakain ng marami at mag-uuwi sa mga aso!! so kawawang Brando talo!!!

moderately greedy -Albay gov. joey sarte salceda- though billions of pesos ang mga priority projects niya sa Albay still gumagana pa rin dito ang the famous economic phrase na ” ceteris paribus” ikanga mas malaki ang projects/investments ay malamang malaki o parehas ang bulsa still may makikita tayong projects ki tapos o hindi ki substandard o standard ang quality. kaya nga mga contractors diyan na mga taga legaspi, polangui at daraga parang mga hari ngayon sa Albay. siyempre kanila ang kusina eh!!

at ang most greedy of them all none other than !!! tsararaaaan!! walang iba kundi si pinaka-tamad, pinaka-presko, pinaka-ambugon, pinaka-lata, pinaka-plastik, pinaka-borod ahh si 3rd district of Albay Cong. Reno Gutlay Lim–why??? noong nagbakasyon po ako diyan last may 2007 sa last minute campaign rally from where 3 of these big gentlemen was attempted to should i say portrays unifications of the sons of Polangui daw to form a big leap towards a new challenge in the poltics of polangui. nangako po ito na hahakot daw siya ng maraming investor at magtatayo ng mga strategis projects to make polangui one of the most economic potetials sa buong province. so sa ngayon ang nangyayari ay puro upuan sa kamara puro ang nasa isip at proteksiyon ng telecommunication company at ng ang lobbying funs nito ay alam niyo na> wala ito panis talaga !! i want former albay gov.fernando gonsalez in our district this 2010.

well talaga naman pong nakakataba ng puso ang inyo pong mga pagpaparating ng mga pagbati sa atin po kaarawan. though malayo talaga po tayo diyan sa bicol at talaga naman feel ko ito. malamig po ang kinalalagyan natin ngayon nasa helsinki, Finland po tayo bansa na kung saan ang nokia group of companies ang halos bumubuhay ng ekonomiya ng bansang ito. well halos ganun n RIN!! pero ang masaya lang dito ay pag dumamdating ang maiksing paglitaw ng araw at makikita mo ring masasaya ang mga tao. anyway tama na muna tayo dito sa lugar na ito at may ibubulgar ako sa inyo!!!  sa isa pang  blog ko na kasunod nito!! just read it!!!

on rush po kc ang mga projects namin ngayon globally so hindi ko po muna maatupag ang mga latest na issues concerning our dear town and the province of Albay as well. anyway baka next months lumuwag na tayo. so pacensiya na muna mga padi mi mga madi!!! dios mabalos sanyo ngamin

Well masyado yatang  siksikan ang mga magagaling na PR consultant nitong si senator Mar Roxas sa sobrang dami na nila parang garapalan na tuloy at over exposure ang labas nila. There could be no days or week na di siya exposed sa TV or may commentary messages ayon sa feedback ng igan ko through wimax approaches. well garapal talaga at pati ang kanyang soon to be bride ay baka isa na rin sa PR consultant nito since eto ay di rin naman kaila sa atin na gamay na niya ang celebrity at mass media world ay sadyang malaki ang talaga maiaambag nito sa kandidatura ni mar sa 2010. But forgive please forgive me with my word dun sa mga tagahanga ni Miss Korina Sanchez na  baka may “kiss of death” din na dala ito kay Mar Roxas. Ang malalim ko lang na basa dito kay Miss K ay parang may pagka ” Imeldific” karakter din eh. baka pag makatisod itong si Mr. Palengke ng posisyon sa malakanyang eh! talagang imeldang-imelda na pala itong si Miss K. Mumultuhin siya niyan ni tita Cory na supposed to be ay dapat magiging ninang nila sa Kasal ayaw na ayaw ni tita Cory ng ganyang imahe sa palasyo. Anyway may laban naman talga itong si Mar at ito ay depende sa Senatorial slate na ilalatag niya at ang bise niya well may makinarya na rin naman ito pero di pa ganun kung sakali umayaw si noynoy sa pagkabise yari siya. Not unlike ni Villar malakas agad ito may impact talaga sa lahat ng sulok ng bansa siya ngayon ang tinatwag na ” The man to beat”. Wala pang matunog na magiging bise ito pero just of himself alone steadily of stood of what he has with his intention to run the presidency with or without political mudslinging and the character assassination to him di siya nababali. i really like the attitude hindi garapal alam niya agad kung saan aapuhapin ang masa. di tulad ni Mar talagang maglulubid ng buhangin at maglalambat ng hangin just to catch the attention of the people. lalo naman itong si Akbayan partylist rep. riza hontiveroz-baraquiel nakakasuya ang exposure. para na tuloy siyang ka-level ng pag -iisip ni senator JAJAJAmby Madrigal. pinakasimple sa lahat si Chiz kaya lang ang ayoko naman sa kanya parang pinapalabas niya ngayon na siya ang ‘dark-horse’ sa labanan sa 2010. well pag siya ang itinaas ni boss danding pwede may laban. well makikita natin yan sa mga susunod na buwan by October lang Finalized na lahat ng mga slot niyan.  sa susunod uli mga padi mi mga madi! dios mabalos!!!!

Asar na itong si chief security ni Senator bong Revilla sa akin na si multi-villain actor king gutierez. well gumarapal kc ang boss mo eh!!! pasensiya na ha!! ang pumutak daw ng malakas may naamoy na bugok na itlog sa limliman nito. garapal talaga eh! pag manalo pa talaga itong senador sa 2010 ewan ko na lang. dapat dito si coco pimentel na lang pumalit!!! litse!! napaka-aangas pa ng mga anak na si bryan at jolo akala mo kung sinong umasta sa Bonifacio High Street pag nag lalakad tig-tatatlo lang naman ang bodyguard at ang positioning ay isang nasa perimeter at dalawa close -in parang pelikula ba!!!yayabang!!! ganyan kasi pag marami kang atraso sa mga tao lalo na ang mga revilla na ito nangamkam ng lupa ang mga ito sa Silang di nga makapunta kahit sino man sa ito mga dun eh!! eewan ko kulo talaga ang dugo ko sa senador na ito magaling din ang I.T consultant nitong si Bong Revilla pinapasukan ako ng pagkakarami-rami spammer at trojan horse treated na mga message sa decoy kong FS account. di niyo to madadali hanggat di niyo nauupuan itong upuan ko at mabuksan itong mainframe ko wala talaga kayong mapapala, titirahin at titirahin ko kayo hanggat di kayo nagbabago. magbago ka na bong revilla bat di mo gayahin ang ka-isko ko na si Sen Chiz. simply, napakakatas ng utak, napakalalim ng critical thinking at may sensiridad sa kapwa pinoy. anyway mga kaibigan masyado lang po tayong busy sa work natin dito sa pransiya kaya madalang na akong makabukas ng FS account ko . Again dios mabalos mga padi mi mga madi. next time may tributary poem ako sa rested Mam Cory Aquino and this will gonna be posted if not for at least a month or more!!!

First things first my former professor is more believable with all of his economic predicaments not as a natural oppositionist but as a situational-actual analyst of what is really the struture of our nation’s economic situation afformentioning beforehand at the television that i’ve had watched over internet feed.  Joey is once proven best economist in asia-pacific region tagged as the most promising leader well no doubt about that with his two term stints in congressional tenure. demerit him the last seat because namera na talaga siya dun.but these days and beyond perahan na ng todo. for me he is just a monetary, factual, a bit of analytical, and scientific economist because he is a hell of a david ricardian believer. most of his economic predicaments mainly atributes and gives emphasis to the haves one, and those who have a bit of it. but if you’re a no nothing of anything and everything then you’re a no, no to him. This simply signifies how has he trully mastered the PR of  Pres. RAmon Magsaysay he really reads a lot about the life of him for him to emulate and gets the best PR to the public. nandiyan ng kunyari laging madumi, nakikiinom sa mga tambay, nasa tambayan, makikihalubilo sa palengke, sa plaza ng nakacasual lang na dating, with these sorts mastered na mastered na po niya ang public dito sa atin specially Polangui. but now that he has a new house in Daraga dun naman siya. This things cant really change situational compromises to the people ganun at ganun lagi eh. he did’nt give tools to the brightful students, to  the hardworking farmers, at ang mga nanay na masisipag pero hikahos dahil walang resources ng income to maintain and sustain life. tama si prof. diokno nasa tamang kaalaman mo malalaman kung ikaw nilalamangan na ng mga dupang. di po ninyo alam kung gaano kayamanan na itong gov. ninyo super na!! ilang na ang ginawang milyonaryo niyan na dummies rin niya. milyonaryo pero ang pera ay talgang kanya. para di masusog. maraming hawak yan sa Polangui na milyonaryo pero dummy lang niya. at ang mga pesteng dummies na ito aba may talino rin, pag nagkaipitan mukhang pipiyok at ikakanta siya sa mga unexplained wealth nito. pag nagkataon magkamali ito ng suporta sa presidente delikado ka boss!! pero magaling ito balita ko ang taya nito sa villar/roxas ay 60/40 ganyan kalupit ang utak niyan mga kababayan ko!!! dios mabalos mga padi mi madi!!!

His name was Tuvia Bielski:::

Tuvia Bielski (1906–1987) was the leader of the partisan group the Bielski partisans who were situated in the Naliboków forest in pre-war Poland (now western part of Belarus) during World War II.

[edit] Early life

Tuvia grew up in the only Polish Jewish family of Stankiewicze in a small village in Eastern Poland (now Western Belarus) located between towns of Lida and Nowogródek, (both of which later housed Jewish ghettos during World War II.) He was the son of David and Beila Bielski who had twelve children: ten boys and two girls. Tuvia was the third oldest after two brothers. His brothers Asael, Alexander (’Zus’) and Aron were also members of his group of partisans.

During World War I, Tuvia spent a lot of time with German soldiers who occupied Poland and Belarus at the time. Being a speaker of Yiddish, he learned to speak German from these men and remembered it all his life. In 1927, he was recruited into the Polish Army. After his military service was over Tuvia returned home where he was reminded of the poverty his family lived in. In an effort to add to his family’s income, Tuvia rented another mill. This was still inadequate, so in 1929, at the age of twenty-three, he married an older woman named Rifka who owned a general store and a large house.^[1]

During World War II, he was the leader of a Jewish group of refugees. He saved more than 1,200 Jewish people by camping in forests. Although always hunted by Nazis, their numbers continued to grow. In their camp, they built a school, a hospital and a nursery. They lived in the forests for more than 2 years. His brother, Asael Bielski joined the Russian Army, but was killed in action and never lived to see the child he fathered with Chaya, one of the Jewish refugees. As leader of the Bielski partisans, Tuvia’s aim was not to attack railroads and roads that the German Nazis were using as supply routes, although there were some attacks, but to save the Jews who were under persecution from the Nazis during the Holocaust.

After the war he was awarded a high ranking job in the Israel Defense Forces for his great acts of leadership but he declined, setting up a small trucking firm with his brother Zus in New York City for 30 years until his death in 1987. Tuvia married Lilka, another one of the Jewish escapees. They remained married for the rest of their lives. The Bielskis never sought recognition for what they did. (CLOUDSPLITTER’S CLIP::::;It would be better if you could watch the movie Defiance potrayed by 007 star Daniel Craig. Such movie could be  my all time favorite since its story was all about extreme survival and of course it also featureS the moral implications regarding family values and the leadership to a community binded by belief to a certain leader to thrive  atrocities of the world war 2. These where my strength i gonna come up to why i am pursuing to run public office sooner. I want to help out and reform what has been these lamies political figures never ever done things back there, for them be shove out of thier tenure!! so to the younger and stronghold of the future our time is about to  come.   No Usual trapo, no nothing about joey’s hollistic approach come across between us dahil kayang kaya natin siyang pabagsakin. Because i really, really believe that the voices of the youth freely will speak out the very strength of freedom.) pacensiya na po sa mga friendster natin na di ko mareply, busy talaga!!! anyway para makatulong pa po tayo send niyo po ako sa ibang friends niyo o kaya ipakilala i hope makakatulong pa po yan ng malaki. dios mablos mga padi mi madi!!! again pacensiya na po!!! nasa Incirclik air base po kase ang Mittal Team  last week  may project kasi kami dun!!!

To hunt them down The soldiers needs aerial surveillance vehicle to monitor and trace them up days and night. here is the complete detail about the MQ9 reaper. The Unit just simply cost the fighting purse of pacman $10,000,000.

The MQ-9 Reaper (originally the Predator B) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) for use by the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, and the British Royal Air Force. The MQ-9 is the first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance.^[4]

The MQ-9 is a larger and more capable aircraft than the earlier MQ-1 Predator. It can use MQ-1’s ground systems. The MQ-9 has a 950-shaft-horsepower turboprop engine, far more powerful than the Predator’s 115 hp (86 kW) piston engine. The increase in power allows the Reaper to carry 15 times more ordnance and cruise at three times the speed of the MQ-1.^[4]

In 2008 the New York Air National Guard 174th Fighter Wing began to transition from F-16 piloted planes to MQ-9 Reaper drones, which are capable of remote controlled or autonomous flight, becoming the first all-robot attack squadron.^[5][6][7]

Then U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General T. Michael Moseley said, “We’ve moved from using UAVs primarily in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance roles before Operation Iraqi Freedom, to a true hunter-killer role with the Reaper.”^[4]

As of 2009^[update] the U.S. Air Force’s fleet stands at 195 Predators and 28 Reapers.^[2]

[edit] Design and development

With the success of the MQ-1 in combat, General Atomics anticipated the Air Force’s desire for an upgraded aircraft and, using its own funds, set about redesigning Predator.

[edit] Prototype “Predator B”

General Atomics began development of the Reaper with the “Predator B-001″, a proof-of-concept aircraft, which first flew on 2 February 2001. The B-001 was powered by a Garrett AiResearch TPE-331-10T turboprop engine with 950 shp (712 kW). It had a standard Predator airframe, except that the wings were stretched from 48 feet (14.6 m) to 66 feet (20 m). The B-001 had a speed of 220 kts (390 km/h) and could carry a payload of 750 pounds (340 kilograms) to an altitude of 50,000 feet (15.2 kilometers) with an endurance of 30 hours.^[8]

GA refined the design, taking it in two separate directions. The first was with a jet-powered version. The “Predator B-002″ was fitted with a Williams FJ44-2A turbofan engine with 10.2 kN (2,300 lbf, 1,040 kgf) thrust. It had payload capacity of 475 pounds (215 kilograms), a ceiling of 60,000 feet (18.3 kilometers) and endurance of 12 hours. The U.S. Air Force has ordered two airframes for evaluation, delivered in 2007.^[9]

The second was the “Predator B-003″, referred to by GA as the “Altair”, which has a new airframe with an 84-feet (25.6 m) wingspan and a takeoff weight of about 7,000 pounds (3,175 kilograms). Like the Predator B-001, it is powered by a TP-331-10T turboprop. This variant has a payload capacity of 3,000 pounds (1,360 kilograms), a maximum ceiling of 52,000 feet (15.8 kilometers), and an endurance of 36 hours.^[10][11]

[edit] Air Force version

First MQ-9 arrives at Creech AFB, March 2007.

In October 2001, the US Air Force signed a contract with GA to purchase an initial pair of Predator B-003s for evaluation, with follow-up orders for production machines. The first test MQ-9s were delivered to the Air Force in 2002. The name “Altair” did not follow the aircraft into testing, with the Air Force continuing to refer to the system as “Predator B” until it was renamed Reaper (”Altair” instead became the designation for the unarmed NASA version); this is confusing, however, as the manufacturer uses the term to refer to the smaller B-001 prototype.^[8]

Operators, stationed at bases such as Creech Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, can hunt for targets and observe terrain using a number of sensors, including a thermal camera. One estimate has the on-board camera able to read a license plate from two miles away.^[12] An operator’s command takes 1.2 seconds to reach the drone via a satellite link. The MQ-9 is fitted with six stores pylons. The inner stores pylons can carry a maximum of 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) each and allow carriage of external fuel tanks. The mid-wing stores pylons can carry a maximum of 600 pounds (270 kilograms) each, while the outer stores pylons can carry a maximum of 200 pounds (90 kilograms) each. An MQ-9 with two 1,000 pound (450 kilogram) external fuel tanks and a thousand pounds of munitions has an endurance of 42 hours.^[11] The Reaper has an endurance of 14 hours when fully loaded with munitions.^[4] The MQ-9 carries a variety of weapons including the GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb, the AGM-114 Hellfire II air-to-ground missiles, the AIM-9 Sidewinder.^[13] and recently, the GBU-38 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition). Tests are underway to allow for the addition of the AIM-92 Stinger air-to-air missile . Air Force believes that the Predator B will give the service an improved “deadly persistence” capability, with the UAV flying over a combat area night and day waiting for a target to present itself. In this role an armed UAV neatly complements piloted strike aircraft. A piloted strike aircraft can be used to drop larger quantities of ordnance on a target while a cheaper UAV can be kept in operation almost continuously, with ground controllers working in shifts, carrying a lighter ordnance load to destroy targets.^[11]

By October, 2007 the U.S. Air Force owned nine Reapers,^[14] and was expected to decide whether to order full-rate production in 2009.^[4] On 18 May 2006, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a certificate of authorization that allows the MQ-1 and MQ-9 aircraft to fly in U.S. civilian airspace to search for survivors of disasters. Requests had been made in 2005 for the aircraft to be used in search and rescue operations following Hurricane Katrina but, because there was no FAA authorization in place at the time, the planes were not used.^[15]

In September 2007, the MQ-9 deployed into Iraq at Balad, the largest U.S. air base in Iraq.^[16] On 28 October 2007 the Air Force Times reported an MQ-9 had achieved its first “kill”, firing a Hellfire missile against “Afghanistan insurgents in the Deh Rawood region of the mountainous Oruzgan province. The strike was ’successful’,” the United States Central Command Air Forces said.^[17]

Critics have stated that the USAF’s insistence on qualified pilots flying UAVs is a bottleneck to expanding their deployment. Air Force Major General William Rew stated on 5 August 2008, “For the way we fly them right now”—fully integrated into air operations and often flying missions alongside manned aircraft—”we want pilots to fly them.”^[18] This may be exacerbating losses of Air Force aircraft, in comparison with US Army operations.^[19]

An MQ-9 taking off in Afghanistan

The typical MQ-9 system consists of multiple aircraft, ground control station, communications equipment and links, maintenance spares, and military (or contractor) personnel. The crew consists of a pilot and sensor operator. To meet combat requirements, the MQ-9 tailors its capabilities using mission kits of various combinations of weapons and sensors payloads. The Raytheon AN/AAS-52 multi-spectral targeting sensor suite includes a color/monochrome daylight TV, infrared, and image-intensified TV with laser rangefinder/target designator to designate targets for laser guided munitions. The Synthetic Aperture Radar system enables GBU-38 JDAM targeting, is capable of very fine resolution in both spotlight and strip modes, and has ground moving target indicator capability.

[edit] Navy version

General Atomics designed a naval version of the Reaper, named the “Mariner”, for the U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program requirements. The design would have an increased fuel capacity in order to have an endurance of up to 49 hours.^[20] Proposed variations on the ultimate design included one designed for carrier operations with folding wings for carrier storage, shorter and more rugged landing gear, an arresting hook, cut-down or eliminated ventral flight surfaces and six stores pylons with a total load of 3,000 pounds (1,360 kilograms).^[11] The Northrop Grumman RQ-4N was announced the BAMS winner.

The US Customs and Border Protection has ordered a “Maritime Variant” of the MQ-9.^[21]

[edit] NASA version

NASA version Altair

NASA version Ikhana

NASA had initially expressed some interest in a production version of the B-002 turbofan-powered variant,^[11] but instead has leased an unarmed version of the Reaper, which carries the GA-ASI company name “Altair”. Altair is one of the first 3 “Predator-B” airframes. The other 2 airframes, known as “Predator-B 001″ and “Predator-B 002″, had a maximum gross weight of 7,500 pounds. Altair differs from these models in that it has an 86-foot (26 m) long wingspan (20 feet greater than early and current MQ-9’s). The Altair has enhanced avionics systems to better enable it to fly in FAA-controlled civil airspace and demonstrate “over-the-horizon” command and control capability from a ground station. These aircraft are used by NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise as part of the NASA ERAST Program to perform on-location science missions.^[22]

In November 2006, NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center obtained an MQ-9 from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.. The aircraft has been named Ikhana and its main goal is the Suborbital Science Program within the Science Mission Directorate. NASA also acquired a ground control station in a mobile trailer.^[23] This aircraft was used extensively to survey the Southern California wildfires in 2007. The data was used to deploy firefighters to areas of the highest need.

[edit] Homeland Security version

An MQ-9 of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.

UAV Operators at Balad Camp Anaconda, Iraq, April 20, 2005.

The United States Department of Homeland Security initially ordered one Predator B for border patrol duty, referred to as MQ-9 CBP-101. It began operations 4 October 2005, but on 25 April 2006, this aircraft crashed in the Arizona desert. The NTSB determined (Record Identification: CHI06MA121^[24]) that the cause of the crash was most likely a pilot error by the aircraft’s ground-based pilot in the use of a checklist. During its operational period, the aircraft flew 959 hours on patrol and had a part in 2,309 arrests. It also contributed to the seizure of four vehicles and 8,267 pounds of marijuana.^[25] Because of these successes, a second Predator B, called “CBP-104″ (initially referred to as “CBP-102″), was delivered in September 2006, and commenced limited border protection operations on 18 October 2006. The program was further expanded on 16 February 2009, including Candian border patrols where US officials were concerned about the explotation of the border by “drug smugglers, migrants and terrorists”^[26].

The CBP-101 was equipped with the Lynx SAR, AX-15 payload, ARC-210 radios, and other sensors and communications equipment; CBP-104 was enhanced with K_u band satellite command and control link and MTS-A EO/IR sensors.^[25]

The President’s FY 2006 Emergency Supplemental budget request added $45 million for the Predator B program, and the FY 2007 Homeland Security Appropriations bill adds an additional $20 million. In October 2006, GA-ASI announced a $33.9 million contract to supply two more Predator B systems by Fall 2007.^[27]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has Six ^[28]operational MQ-9s. One based in North Dakota, at the UAS Operations Center in Grand Forks, four in Arizona, at the UAS Operations Center in Sierra Vista and one based at Fort Drum, N.Y.[3] The aircraft are equipped with GA-ASI’s Lynx Synthetic Aperture Radar (Lynx SAR info/web page) and Raytheon’s MTS-B ElectroOptical/Infrared sensors.^[29]

[edit] International versions

[edit] Australia

In September 2006, the General Atomics Mariner demonstrator aircraft was operated by the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in an exercise designed to evaluate the aircraft’s ability to aid in efforts to stem illegal fishing, drug running and illegal immigration. The Mariner operated from RAAF bases Edinburgh, South Australia and Learmonth, Western Australia in conjunction with a Royal Australian Navy Armidale class patrol boat, the Joint Offshore Protection Command and the Pilbara Regiment.^[30]

[edit] United Kingdom

On 27 September 2006, the U.S. Congress was notified by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency that the United Kingdom was seeking to purchase a pair of MQ-9 Reapers. They are operated by No. 39 Squadron RAF out of Creech Air Force Base, Nevada.^[31] A third MQ-9 is in the process of being purchased by the RAF.^[31]

On 9 November 2007, the UK Ministry of Defence announced that its MQ-9 Reapers had begun operations in Afghanistan against the Taliban.^[32] On 4 January 2008 it became public that the United Kingdom wants to purchase a further 10 MQ-9 Reapers, giving the Royal Air Force a total fleet of 13 Reaper UAVs.^[33]

In April 2008, British special forces were forced to destroy one of the two Reapers operating in Afghanistan to prevent sensitive material falling into the hands of the Taliban after it crash landed.^[34]

[edit] Germany

Germany has made a request to purchase five Reapers and four ground control stations, plus related support material and training. The request, being made through the Foreign Military Sales process, was presented to Congress through the Defense Security Cooperation Agency on 1 August 2008 and is valued at US$205 million.^[35][36]

[edit] Italy

On August 1, 2008, Italy submitted a FMS request through the Defense Security Cooperation Agency for four aircraft, four ground stations and five years of maintenance support, all valued at US$330 million.^[35][37]