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Lead Aviation Platform for MGUE Increment 1 Changed from B-2 to Gray Eagle

Lead Aviation Platform for MGUE Increment 1 Changed from B-2 to Gray Eagle
Pictured is a "weaponized" Gray Eagle drone (General Atomics Photo)

AURORA, Colo.--Last fall, U.S. Space Force decided to switch the lead platform for the Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Increment 1 aviation card from the Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber to the Army Gray Eagle drone, the head of Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Monday. "The biggest thing on MGUE 1 is the lead platform changed to the Army's Gray Eagle," Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant told reporters here at the Air and Space Forces Association's Warfare…

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