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How Marine MQ-9s Will Adapt For A Pacific Fight, Pave Way For Future Drones
A tilt-rotor MUX drone concept from Bell. (Bell) In 2018, the Marine Corps began operating two MQ-9s Reapers leased from the drone’s manufacturer, General Atomics. In late 2020, the service was ...
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USAF’s Special Ops Autonomy Push Looking Toward Air-Launched Swarms
The effort is a collaboration between AFSOC, U.S. Special Operations Command’s Program Executive Office-Fixed Wing and the ...
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U.S. loses $30 million Reaper drone in Yemen
The Houthis have brought down two other MQ-9s — both off the coast of Yemen — since November, the first in early November and then another in February. Each drone costs roughly $30 million ...
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Moody passed over for ‘Reaper’ mission
VALDOSTA, Ga. — Moody Air Force Base has been passed over by the Air Force for a mission involving unmanned aircraft, according to an Air Force press release. The Air Force has decided Shaw Air ...
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U.S. in hypersonic weapon ‘arms race’ with China--Air Force secretary
The MQ-9s have been very effective for counterterrorism and so on. They’re still useful, but none of these things scare China,” Kendall said, referring to a more than 40-year-old combat ...