MQ-9A Reaper product profile
MQ-9A Reaper is General Atomics long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft for ISR and strike missions. It carries sensor and weapons payloads over extended flights, giving military users persistent surveillance, targeting and precision-effect capability.
Facts
- Company: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
- Product type: UAV
- Status: commercial
- Website: https://www.ga-asi.com/remotely-piloted-aircraft/mq-9a
Profile sections
- Summary
- Overview
- Market context
- Audience
- Workflow
- Capability
- Deployment environment
- Positioning tags
- Specifications
- Tags
- Supply / Components
- Comparable Systems
- Sources
Summary
MQ-9A Reaper is General Atomics long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft for ISR and strike missions. It carries sensor and weapons payloads over extended flights, giving military users persistent surveillance, targeting and precision-effect capability.
Overview
MQ-9A Reaper is General Atomics long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft for ISR and strike missions. It carries sensor and weapons payloads over extended flights, giving military users persistent surveillance, targeting and precision-effect capability.
Market context
MQ-9A Reaper is GA-ASI's medium-altitude long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft for ISR and strike missions.
- Target environment: Military air operations, persistent surveillance missions, maritime or land support and remotely piloted aircraft units.
- Workflow context: ISR, target acquisition, persistent surveillance, communications relay, maritime surveillance and strike support.
- Customer context: Defense forces and government operators using long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft for operational missions.
- Deployment model: Fielded defense aircraft platform with aircraft, ground control, communications and payload ecosystem.
- Commercial maturity: Mature commercial defense platform with extensive operational history and public specifications.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on procurement, export controls, basing, training, payloads, mission rules and sustainment cost.
- Market position: Reference MALE RPA platform for long-endurance defense autonomy and unmanned aircraft supply-chain context.
- Adjacent products: MQ-9B, Bayraktar Akinci, Heron TP, Hermes 900
Workflow
ISR, target acquisition, persistent surveillance, communications relay, maritime surveillance and strike support.
Capability
Remote operation
Deployment environment
Military air operations, persistent surveillance missions, maritime or land support and remotely piloted aircraft units.
Positioning tags
- Audience: Defense
- Workflow: ISR, target acquisition, persistent surveillance, communications relay, maritime surveillance and strike support.
- Capability: Remote operation
- Deployment environment: Military air operations, persistent surveillance missions, maritime or land support and remotely piloted aircraft units.
Specifications
- Endurance: Over 27 hours
- Speed: 240 KTAS
- Range: 2,250 nautical mile max radius
- Task Scope: Long-endurance persistent surveillance and strike missions
- Operational Role: Multi-role remotely piloted aircraft for persistent ISR and precision strike
- Ceiling: Up to 15,240 m / 50,000 ft
- Max Speed: 240 KTAS
- Comms Control: Fault-tolerant flight control system and triple-redundant avionics architecture
- Payload Capacity Kg: 1,746 kg payload capacity, including 1,361 kg external stores kg
Tags
- Peer Group: Tactical ISR UAV
- Workflow: Tactical reconnaissance
- Capability: Remote operation
- Deployment Environment: Defence operational environment
- Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
- Commercial Stage: Deployed platform
Supply / Components
- MQ-9A Reaper - Turboprop Engine - Power Systems - Honeywell Aerospace Technologies - Honeywell TPE331-10 turboprop engines power the MQ-9A Reaper - source: ga-asi.com
- MQ-9A Reaper - Multispectral Targeting System - Perception - Raytheon - Raytheon MTS-B multispectral targeting systems are used on MQ-9 Reaper for EO/IR targeting, tracking, range finding, and laser designation - source…
- MQ-9A Reaper - Inertial Navigation System - Positioning & navigation - Honeywell Aerospace Technologies - Honeywell ring-laser gyro inertial navigation hardware is used in the MQ-9A Reaper navigation stack - source: aer…
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