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USAF plans MQ-1 sundown in 2018

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After repeated attempts to retire the MQ-1, the U.S. Air Force is determined to retire the fleet by 2018.

MQ-1 Lethal Presence
By U.S. Air Force photo by Lt Col Leslie Pratt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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