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🇺🇸🇰🇷 The US has officially created and deployed the first permanent MQ-9 Reaper strike-reconnaissance UAV unit in South Korea, the 431st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, based at Kunsan Air Base. Interestingly, this is effectively the first revival of this unit since World War II, when it previously consisted of interceptors...

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