MQ-9 to be armed with SDB Citat:General Atomics has been awarded a $17 million contract to integrate the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) onto the MQ-9 Reaper.
India advances import of 22 non-weaponised Guardian UAVs Citat:India is advancing the import of 22 non-weaponised General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) Guardian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the Indian Navy (IN) under the US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme.
Responding to a question in parliament, India’s Minister of State for Defence, Subhash Bhamre, said on 20 December that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in New Delhi was awaiting a response from the US Office of Defence Cooperation to its 14 November request for information (RFI) for the UAVs.
http://www.janes.com/article/76605/india-advances-.....rdian-uavs
Glimpse Of The Future?: MC-130 Sets Up Forward Refueling Point For MQ-9 Reaper Drone
The ability to rush small detachments of unmanned aircraft to remote, forward locations could enable all new operational concepts.
Citat:The Reapers are much less fuel hungry than high performance fighter jets such as the F-22, meaning a finite number of C-130-type aircraft could be able to sustain their operations for longer periods of time. An F-22 carries 18,000lbs of fuel internally on a mission that will last roughly two hours. An MQ-9 carries 4,000lbs internally and it can fly on that for around a day with a weapons payload. So a single F-22 tank of gas can keep the Reaper flying for four and a half missions lasting the better part of a week.
USAF launches effort to equip Reaper UAS with air-to-air missile
Citat:The US Air Force (USAF) is looking to equip its General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) with an air-to-air missile (AAM) capability for the first time.
http://www.janes.com/article/78444/usaf-launches-e.....ir-missile
