U.S. Military Drone Flies Along Cuban Coast

A U.S. military surveillance drone flew off Cuba’s coast for several hours last week, USA Today and other media outlets have reported based on data from Flightradar24, a flight tracking service. The flight took more than six hours and circled in holding patterns near Havana and Santiago de Cuba.

The MG-4C Triton can spend 24 hours in the air and reach over 50,000 feet, well above commercial flight altitude. Each drone costs over $200 million. The same type of drone recently crashed in Iran, according to Navy data. A Flightradar24 spokesman told USA Today that similar drones were tracked around Venezuela as U.S. forces prepared for the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro.