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General Atomics wins $279 mn contract to produce 24 MQ-9 Reaper UAVs for the USAF.
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| General Atomics wins $279 mn contract to produce 24 MQ-9 Reaper UAVs for the USAF | |||
General
Atomics, Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded
a $279,144,933 for MQ-9 Reaper production for the US Air Force. The contractor
will provide 24 MQ-9
Block 5 Reaper aircraft and associated spare parts, support equipment
and spares. |
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Work
will be performed at Poway, California, and is expected to be complete
by Sept. 30, 2017. The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity. The MQ-9 Reaper (previously Predator B) is a medium-to-high altitude, long endurance remotely piloted aircraft system. (UAS), capable of remote controlled or autonomous flight operations, developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) for use by the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Royal Air Force, and the Italian Air Force. The MQ-9 Reaper aircraft was designed to operate over-the-horizon at medium-to-high altitude for long endurance sorties. The aircraft was designed primarily to prosecute critical emerging Time Sensitive Targets (TSTs) as a radar-based attack asset with on-board hard-kill capability (hunter-killer) and also perform Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Target Acquisition (ISR TA) as a secondary role. The MQ-9 Predator B Reaper can also be used as an armed multi-mission UAV, launching AGM-114C/K Hellfire missiles and other guided weapons. In total, the aircraft can carry up to 14 Hellfire missiles, compared with two carried on the MQ-1 Predator. |
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