NZ Govt. Owned MQ-9 REAPER UAVs :

General Atomics hunter-killer UAV 'REAPER' is sometimes also known as 'PREDATOR-B'.

Reapers carry upto 1,000 kilos weight of missiles or bombs with a cruising duration upto 28 hours.

- A small dark shadow overhead?

 - you might care to bend-over and kiss your ass goodbye ..

Currently offered as a bargain starting at US$ 8 Million each (conditions & terms apply)  PLUS of course the essential ground control bases, training, & expendables.

While the USAF run about 200 of these .. Our RAAF cussies over the ditch are lashing-out A$ 300 million for maybe 8 (or 6 only - reported variously) - so by the time they've got them deployed operationally they should expect it to have cost at least 600 Million eh .. as government spending usually costs at least twice what they announce.

It is likely a Reaper was used to take-out the head of Iran's Quds Force Soleimani - possibly using a recently developed specialist version of the Hellfire missile - that deploys steel cutting blades as it contacts using a reduced explosive impact. - Either way it has been reported that the disassembled remains were able to be identified by a ring on a finger.

Governments have the habit of enforcing their political will on others by appropriate means .. while our developing New Zealand police state is deploying internal armed police teams to search for an old lever action rabbit rifle - with an invalid search warrant.

Police are said to have targeted this small bore manual action rim-fire because an image of it was used in a Parliamentary Submission ..

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- Here is another of the informed & opposing submissions - from down South - well worth reading:

https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/52SCFE_EVI_91272_FE22829/72f43a87bd47947b74cb7686ec8296971e6c9cdd?fbclid=IwAR2NwVItf6fsYZGagyn6WNQZrHRtyOF6JfaePwU7JZbYLzTi9slH81tvbXM

Our current regime must put on hold their current expensive changes to NZ Firearms Regulation .. and at least demonstrate some respect until the Royal Commission's findings into the Mosque Massacre are released.

The money that they will save will go some way towards the purchase of MQ-9 Reapers to replace our six P3 Orion nuclear capable Maritime Patrol Aircraft that are past their use-by dates.

Marty K.