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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) has announced that a Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper RPA has reached a record 20,000 flight hours on a single aircraft, signifying the highest flight time of any Predator B. The milestone was achieved while performing a 17-hour combat mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan on December 23. Continue reading
The US Air Force is considering bonus pay to address a major shortage of RPAS pilots, according to officials at Air Combat Command.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has been awarded a $43,291,564 firm-fixed-price contract for MQ-9 Reaper field retrofit. Contractor will provide retrofit kits for the MQ-9 Reaper Block 1 configuration aircraft with field retrofit capabilities.
The US Special Operations Command is looking for a new contractor to provide and manage a fleet of medium-range unmanned aerial vehicles,, and has put out the call to industry ahead of an early 2015 lapse in its contractor-provided ISR support.
The first trial flights in low temperature conditions of the Orlan-10 UAS, just delivered to a unit of the Eastern Military District in Chukotka, are planned in early 2015.
The U.S. Air Force’s fleet of RPAS is being strained to the “breaking point,” according to senior military officials and an internal service memo acquired by The Daily Beast. And it’s happening right when the unmanned aircraft are most needed to fight ISIS. The Air Force has enough MQ-1 Predators and MQ-9 Reapers. It just doesn’t have the manpower to operate these machines. Continue reading
India and the U.S. are negotiating a deal for the purchase of high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).
Recently published ABNA.ir photos of Iranian-built Yasir UAV claimed in use with Harakat Hizballah al-Nujaba (HHN): an Iraqi Shia militia allied with Iran. Continue reading