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But the agreement will also formalise facilities for the American trainers and surveillance planes that help Colombian forces in anti-drug actions under Plan Colombia.
ECONOMIST: Colombia and its neighbours
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But after a short meeting with President Bill Clinton last month at the United Nations, he seems to have quietly decided to drop his opposition to a small American military outpost on Aruba, which services drug-surveillance planes.
ECONOMIST: Venezuela
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Operation Airbridge Denial had supplied information from US surveillance equipment to local air force planes for them to intercept suspected drug flights.
BBC: Colombia drug flights 'to resume'
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Last November a pair of Iranian fighter planes fired on a drone conducting surveillance of Iran, but missed.
WSJ: U.S. Fighters Warned Off Iranian Jet
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The surveillance flights, which have resulted in 30 planes being forced down or shot at since 1995, have been suspended.
ECONOMIST: A cautious yes to pan-American trade
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The drones used in the experimental flights were modified RQ-4 Global Hawk planes, which are generally used for surveillance.
BBC: Unstaffed drone refuelling test 'successful'
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Developed by Northrop Grumman, it is designed to conduct high altitude surveillance missions and replace the U-2 spy planes, in use since the 1950s.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Future of Unmanned Flight
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On board the aircraft carriers there are typically 70-80 planes for defence, attack, refuelling in flight, jamming enemy communications and radars, and for airborne surveillance and control.
BBC: F/A-18C prepares to launch from the USS Enterprise