The unarmed MQ-9s will fly in direct support of NATO’s so-called air-shielding mission, monitoring activity along Ukraine’s borders with alliance member states.
The Satellite Launch and Recovery Package will enable U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) to have a smaller logistics and personnel footprint for MQ-9 operations.
Authors of a new study see increasingly autonomous UAS as helping China limit the number of casualties it might face in a conflict and boost its industrial base.
India’s acquisition of 31 General Atomics MQ-9B UAS from the U.S. could boost the subcontinent’s status as a defense MRO hub, according to former Indian Defense Secretary Ajay Kumar.
The Pentagon is again accusing Russia of unsafe operations in the Middle East releasing a video taken July 5 that shows a Russian Su-35 harassing a U.S. MQ-9.
A joint statement hailed the agreement as a “trailblazing initiative that would “enable greater transfer of U.S. jet engine technology than ever before.”
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