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Yemen-US War: Yemen’s armed forces have shot down a 19th American MQ-9 Reaper drone, escalating tensions with the U.S. The UAV, worth $33 ... CEO Ted Sarandos Says Movie Theater Model Is ...

Notably, the incorporation of the Dual Carriage System enables the UAV to carry a pair of GBU-39 bombs instead of one. The Reaper’s ability to carry a wide array of munitions thanks to this ...

The US Marine Corps has equipped its MQ-9 Reaper drones with a new electronic warfare pod. The pod "can mimic things that are sent to it," Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith said. The ...

In November 2022, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) flew the first production MQ-9A Multi-Domain Operations (M2DO) variant of the USAF MQ-9A Reaper. The upgraded version of the MQ-9A Block ...

The U.S. Air Force has made the decision to retire the MQ-9 Reaper, with plans to phase out the UAV platform by 2035. The Reaper has been an integral part of surveillance and forward strike ...

The US Air Force's MQ-9 Reaper is a remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV. It is used primarily for intelligence collection and precision strikes against targets on the ground.

These are cheaper than on the Reaper because the ULTRA operates at lower altitudes, so commercially available sensors are perfectly acceptable. According to the Air Force, this affordable UAV will ...

The venerable Reaper UAV could become a mothership for a single-operator drone swarm, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command said recently. AFSOC’s Adaptive Airborne Enterprise project ...