Iraq: Plans to buy UAVs for oil facilitiesnote

Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled Al-Obeidi is said to be going ahead with a project to buy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to reinforce air surveillance of the oil facilities in southern and northern Iraq. The following 326-word report sheds light on the subject and tells what about the companies which will be contacted on the project and what about the budget allocated for it. [Partly reproduced in TR Weekly (Issue No 22/45 – Nov. 6, 2015)]