SAN DIEGO, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- New landing gear that increases landing weight capacity of Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper ... retrofitted on the landing gear of its unmanned aerial vehicle already in service.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA ASI) has unveiled a new trailing arm design for the existing main landing gear on its Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper UAV ... SOF Week 2025: PDW unveils attritable FPV ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA‑ASI) and GKN Aerospace’s Fokker business unit have collaborated to produce and support landing gear systems for the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper ... Multirotor First ...

and new heavy-weight landing gear, capable to extend Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper’s already impressive endurance. Following a recent Endurance Enhancement Study, GA-ASI proposes two different field ...

Automated line operated as partnership of Fokker and GA-ASI UAV for remote-controlled or autonomous flight Eyeing advanced composites applications GKN Aerospace’s Fokker business, a manufacturer of ...

Earlier this month, General Atomics announced that its latest drone in the Predator family would be ... s designed outright as a short takeoff and landing plane, expanding the kinds of terrain ...

drones can operate out of unprepared landing sites. It is now used as a test bed to inform STOL wing set options for the other members of the Predator family, namely the SkyGuardian, SeaGuardian ...

Reporting from Kandahar, Afghanistan — The U.S. military often portrays its drone ... crashed a Predator by hitting the “kill engine” switch instead of the adjacent landing gear switch ...

As the U.S. military scrambles to get more robotic warplanes like the Predator ... optics and landing gear. On rare occasions, pilots bank the aircraft so steeply that the drones briefly lose ...

Despite being amphibious, the U560’s top speed of 260km per hour is faster than the Predator ... amphibious drone that debuted at the 2014 Zhuhai Air Show (the U650’s landing gear is retractable).

The backbone of their UAV program is the Shahed 129, a large-sized armed drone, visually similar to the American General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, though the Predator is a vastly more capable platform.