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MQ-9 ground control station console with operators monitoring multiple sensor and flight displays during unmanned aircraft operations.

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General Atomics to retrofit MQ-9A Block 30 stations for MQ-9B ops

General Atomics will retrofit Block 30 MQ-9A ground stations to control MQ-9B, easing European Reaper fleet transitions but keeping operations limited to military airspace.

MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft carrying external stores under its wings during a flight demonstration.

defense

Reaper fires APKWS in air-to-air drone defence demo

USAF has demonstrated an MQ-9A Reaper using low-cost laser-guided APKWS to down aerial targets, aiming to cut the cost of countering one-way attack drones—an approach with clear implications for Europe’s layered air defence and magazine depth.