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General Atomics tests new radar warning receiver against air-defense systems - News
April 11, 2017
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI) announced a successful demonstration of a radar warning receiver (RWR) on a GA-ASI Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Block 5 remotely piloted aircraft (RPA). The GA-ASI-owned Predator B operated from the company's Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility near Palmdale, California, performing against various ground-based radars.
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DARPA working on program to enable airborne UAS launch-and-recovery system - News
March 17, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently completed Phase 1 of its Gremlins program, which has as its goal fielding volleys of low-cost, reusable unmanned aerial systems (UASs) that would be launched and later retrieved in midair. Moving on to the next stage, DARPA has now awarded Phase 2 contracts to two teams, one led by Dynetics (Huntsville, Alabama) and the other led by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (San Diego, California).
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MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range (ER) series from GA-ASI begins flight testing - News
December 12, 2016
SAN DIEGO. The MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range (ER) series from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI) completed its initial flight from El Mirage Flight Operations Facility in Adelanto, California on October 29th.
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Avenger UAV makes initial flight - News
November 14, 2016
POWAY, Calif. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) announced that it has completed the initial flight of its Avenger Extended Range (ER) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an extended-range version of its multimission jet-powered Predator C Avenger craft, which has accumulated over 13,000 flight hours to date. GA-ASI says that the flight took place on October 27th at the company's Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility in Palmdale, California.
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Predator C Avenger gets FAA experimental certificate - News
July 11, 2016
FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI), officials announced that its company-owned Predator C Avenger unmanned aircraft system (UAS) received a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-issued Experimental Certificate (EC), enabling it to perform routine operations in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). The announcement was made this week at the Farnborough International Air Show.
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Passive radar system is integrated on GA-ASI's Predator B - News
July 08, 2016
SAN DIEGO. Raytheon Deutschland GmbH and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI) engineers will integrate the Advanced Radar Detection System (ARDS) ? an Electronic Support Measure (ESM) system for passive radar monitoring ? on a standard pod that will be mounted on the centerline hard point of GA-ASI?s unmanned aerial system (UAS), the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper.
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Certifiable Predator B from GA-ASI finishes fuselage integrity testing - News
May 05, 2016
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI), officials announced that the company completed fuselage structural integrity testing of its Certifiable Predator B (CPB) unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
