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HASC PROVIDES MONEY FOR AIR FORCE TO ACQUIRE PREDATORS.
Advanced Materials & Composites News, October, 2001
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC), in its markup of the FY '02 $20 million to begin the procurement of the General Atomics Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Predator B is a larger and faster version of the Rotax piston engine powered Predator A already in service in the Air Force.
It's fuselage and wings are carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composites. Some lawmakers, such as Rep. Randy Cunningham (R-Calif.), see Predator B as a useful and inexpensive complement to the service's force of Predators. General Atomics is developing three versions of Predator B. The ...
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