Monday, July 19, 2021

The MQ-9 Reaper Drone Can Now Land And Take-Off From Locations Without The Need To Have Specialized Infrastructure In Place

A Reaper undergoing a pre-flight check in Afghanistan in 2015. USAF  

Warzone/The Drive: MQ-9 Reaper Tests Prove It Can Operate From Unprepared Locations On The Fly  

The Air Force recently tested a new landing and take-off capability that could allow the MQ-9 to self deploy to a much wider range of locales. 

The U.S. Air Force just demonstrated a new capability for the MQ-9 Reaper that could pave the way for the unmanned aircraft to deploy to and operate from a wider array of locations and without the need to have specialized infrastructure in place. 

The service has also now demonstrated how the drones can use targeting pods and other sensors to generate reference points for automatic landing and takeoff capabilities from the air to further support future agile, expeditionary deployments. 

This is a broader concept of operations that the Air Force has been developing, with a particular eye toward future distributed operations, particularly in the Pacific.  

Read more ....  

WNU Editor: The software/engineering/and technological upgrades that must have been done to make this possible must be incredible.

2 comments:

jac said...

True and we are far from discovering new upgrade.

RussInSoCal said...

The USAF could've consulted any Alaskan Bush Pilot and gotten the upgrades basis the smart/easy way. But I am very sure that that didn't happen.


PIPER,
CUB,

R,