Sunday 14 November 2021

EXCLUSIVE: General Atomics is secretly flying a new, heavily armed drone

The new yet-unnamed drone can carry up to 16 Hellfire missiles at a time — double the load of an MQ-1C Gray Eagle.
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EXCLUSIVE: General Atomics is secretly flying a new, heavily armed drone

DUBAI: General Atomics has built and flown a prototype of a deadly new drone with significantly more firepower than the US military's current unmanned aircraft inventory, including the capability to launch a whopping 16 Hellfire missiles.

The unmanned aerial system — whose existence has not been previously been reported — made its first flight this summer at the company's Desert Horizon test grounds in the Mohave Desert, two sources with knowledge of the program told Breaking Defense.

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