The Air Force is now negotiating with Turkey to relocate some of the Predator drones still operating in Iraq to the giant air base at Incirlik next year. Elsewhere in the Greater Middle East, according to Aviation Week, the military is launching Global Hawks from Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, piloted […]
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US drone bases throughout the Middle East
October 18, 2011United Arab Emirates is top US military customer
January 4, 2010The United Arab Emirates has became the largest foreign purchaser of US defence equipment, a Pentagon agency said. The US defence security co-operation agency, a unit of the Pentagon, said that in the last fiscal year the UAE became the largest foreign purchaser of US defence equipment with sales of $7.9bn, ahead of Afghanistan ($5.4bn), […]
