Predator UAS Series Aircraft
- Have logged over 1,000,000 flight hours with over 85
percent in combat
- Remotely piloted or fully autonomous
- Every second of every day, over 40 aircraft are
airborne worldwide
- C-130 transportable
- Perform routine LOS and BLOS operations with
reachback capability
- Features Lynx® Multi-mode Radar wide-area surveillance
- Laser designate for another attack aircraft
- Fire precision-guided missiles in combat
- Surpassed a record 14,000 flight hours on a single
airframe
Predator Aircraft
- Able to remain airborne over 40 hours per flight
- Launched and controlled another UAS
- Transmit imagery to AC-130 gunships
- Controlled from ground vehicles, aircraft, and ships
including a submerged submarine
- First UAS to launch a weapon in combat
Sky Warrior®
- Triple-redundant flight control system
- Heavy-fuel engine
- Fielded two years early
- Controlled by U.S. Army One System GCS
- Carries four Hellfire missiles
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Predator B/Variants
- Provide multi-mission capabilities through versatile
plug and play configurations
- Employ GBU-12, GBU-38 precision-guided bombs
and Hellfire missiles
- Operates with a 360° multi-mode maritime radar over a digital satellite data link
- Flew from Southern California to Alaska
- Operated above the Arctic Circle and in Canadian
airspace with over-the-horizon control
- Monitored forest fires along the Alaska pipeline
- Mapped wildfires across Western U.S. improving
firefighting effectiveness
- Provide disaster relief support to federal and state
agencies
- Successfully carried a modified F-16 tactical
reconnaissance sensor pod
- Received the FAA's first UAS airworthiness
certificate, experimental category
- Carried an integrated scientific sensor package up to
- 45,000 feet altitude for 20 hours
- Patrols U.S. borders and maritime approaches
- Incorporates a MIL-STD-1760 Stores Management
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