GA-ASI Reveals Wildfire Drone as MMA Option
The drone is designed to cost as little as $10 million per aircraft and could be delivered years earlier than the Air Force’s original timeline.
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New Wildfire drone with over 9,200-mile-range unveiled for US military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has formally unveiled its new Wildfire unmanned aircraft, positioning the clean-sheet drone as a faster and more affordable successor to the MQ-9A Reaper. The company says Wildfire was designed to meet the Pentagon’s requirements for the emerging Massed Modular Aircraft (MMA) program while supporting long-endurance missions and future civil applications. According to GA-ASI, Wildfire can perform…
GA-ASI reveals Wildfire drone as MMA option
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is pitching its new Wildfire drone as a replacement for the firm's MQ-9A Reaper following sweeping losses in Operation Epic Fury. Wildfire comes from a clean-sheet design to better integrate lower-cost materials, modularity and mass producibility, GA-ASI said in a news release today, aligning the drone with the Air Force and Defense Innovation Unit’s ambitions for the Massed Modular Aircraft program. MMA is a…
The U.S. Air Force is accelerating the modernization of its drone fleet. The once-renowned Reaper drone, gradually fading under the threat of modern air defense systems, has a successor: the Wildfire. The emergence of the Wildfire reflects a shift in U.S. military operational thinking from high-value platforms to low-cost, large-scale, and modular designs.
Wildfire, a new unmanned reconnaissance and strike aircraft proposed as a successor to the MQ-9A Reaper, was presented on September 10 by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. The proposal was submitted to the US Air Force's Massed Modular Aircraft (MMA) program and the DIU (Defense Innovation Unit), for the development of a more economical system that can be produced […] The article Wildfire: General Atomics officially presents the Reaper succe…
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