Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
First Surveillance Reapers Handed Over to the Netherlands
Following delivery, the unmanned aerial vehicles will be tested in the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.
The second MQ-9A for the KLu is seen during its acceptance flight trials at GA-ASI’s Gray Butte airfield in California’s Mojave desert. (Photo: Netherlands Ministry of Defence)
The second MQ-9A for the KLu is seen during its acceptance flight trials at GA-ASI’s Gray Butte airfield in California’s Mojave desert. (Photo: Netherlands Ministry of Defence)

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has handed over the first three of four MQ-9A Block 5 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft (RPAs) on order for the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Support equipment and two mobile ground control stations were also handed over at the same time. The RPAs and equipment are due to be transported to Hato on the island of Curaçao later in April to begin surveillance operations with 306 Squadron in the Netherlands Antilles.