Canada; Air Force orders $313M worth of weapons for MQ-9 Reaper Drones

The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Canada of munitions and other systems to be integrated into MQ-9Bs for an estimated cost of $313.4 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

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The Government of Canada has requested to buy munitions and other systems to be integrated into MQ-9Bs purchased through Direct Commercial Sales, to include:

— twelve (12) AN/APY-8 Lynx Synthetic Aperture radars;

— two hundred nineteen (219) AGM-114R2 Hellfire II missiles;

— eighteen (18) KMU-572 tail kits for the GBU-38 Joint Direct-Attack Munition (JDAM) and GBU-54 Laser JDAM (LJDAM);

— twelve (12) Mk82 500-lb General Purpose (GP) bombs; and

— six (6) Mk82 Filled Inert bombs.

Canada; Air Force orders $313M worth of weapons for MQ-9 Reaper Drones

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