Drones
The General Atomics
MQ-9 Reaper and variants of the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) recently achieved flight-time milestones, their manufacturers
announced.
According
to AIN Online, General
Atomics said an MQ-9 Reaper reached 20,000 total flight hours during a 17-hour
mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan on December 23.
This is the highest flight time logged by a single MQ-9, or Predator B.
This
particular record-setting aircraft flew for the first time on Jan. 31, 2008
(sic), and had accumulated 1,355 flights, nearly all in support of U.S.
overseas contingency operations.
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