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GA-ASI Names 10 Partners for Australian MQ-9 Program

Nick Zazulia

Tuesday, February 26th, 2019

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GA-ASI Names 10 Partners for Australian MQ-9 Program

MQ-9B (GA-ASI)

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has named 10 partner companies that will comprise Team Reaper Australia, the group to furnish the Oceanic country's military with either MQ-9A or MQ-9B large UAS. Australia named GA-ASI as its armed drone provider last November under its Project Air 7003 but has yet to choose between the MQ-9A Predator B, or Reaper, or the in-development MQ-9B, which comes in both an air-focused SkyGuardian and maritime SeaGuardian configuration. It would be the third country to select the…

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