USAF Begins Search for UAV Replacement of MQ-9 Written 4 June 2020

FlightGlobal reports that the US Air Force “has formally launched its search for an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to replace the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper beginning in 2030.” The service “is conducting market research to find its next medium-altitude UAV for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), as well as air-to-ground strike, missions, Air Force Materiel Command says, in a request for information (RFI) posted online 3 June.” The RFI said, “Interested parties are encouraged to consider and assume the Air Force Research Laboratory Skyborg programme as the primary [UAV] autonomous baseline solution.”
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