France gets Pentagon backing to buy U.S.-made drones: paper

PARIS | Sat May 18, 2013 11:22am EDT PARIS (Reuters) – France has received approval from the U.S. Pentagon to buy two Reaper drones for intelligence gathering, and now only needs backing from Congress, Le Monde newspaper said on Saturday. With its current hardware increasingly outdated, France is urgently trying to build up a modern [...] France gets Pentagon backing to buy U.S.-made drones: paper | www.limit.ws