RQ-1 Predator/MQ-9 Reaper - Teal Group

World Missiles & UAVs Briefing Teal Group Corporation RQ-1 Predator/MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aerial Vehicles June 2019 Program BriefingThe RQ-1A predator was the US Air Force s first medium endurance UAV. The predator stemmed from the CIA's earlier Tier 1 Medium En-durance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MAE-UAV) that was deployed for surveillance missions over the for-mer Yugoslavia in 1993-94. It was based on the General Atomics Gnat 750 air vehicle. The upgraded version, the Gnat-750-TE predator won the DoD s Tier 2 competition with a development award in January 1994 and in 1997 was redesignated as the RQ-1A Pred-ator. The predator was first deployed over Bosnia in the summer of 1995.

MQ-9A Reaper Spiral 0—Formerly Predator-B, this is the enlarged ver-sion of the UAV and the baseline ver-sion of the new type. MQ-9A Reaper Spiral 1—This is version integrated the Hellfire mis-sile system on the platform. MQ-9A Reaper Spiral 2—This is the improved version with higher gross weight, redundant flight avion-

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