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General Atomics' latest generation MQ-9A Reaper UAV approaches half of the company's total flight hours
As reported by General Atomics, the MQ-9A Reaper SİHA of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) company, which has been producing and developing UAV / SİHA systems for 30 years, has exceeded a total flight time of 2 million hours. Predator A, Predator XP, Predator B ER, Guardian, Gray Eagle and Gray Eagle ER produced by the company, which has produced more than 1000 UAVs / SİHAs; Predator C Avenger; and MQ-9B SkyGuardian fleets total flight hours exceeding 7.2 million with nearly 500,000 missions.
GA-ASI UAVs are used by the US Air Force, US Army, US Marine Corps, NASA, Italian Air Force, Royal Air Force, Spanish Air Force, Indian government, French Air and Space Force, United Arab Emirates Armed Forces and Royal Netherlands Air Force. It provides an average of 48,000 hours of operational service per month, including newly delivered MQ-9As.
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