General Atomics
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Industry & Contracts
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems: The Company That Built the Armed Drone Era
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is the private, family-controlled company that built the Predator, Reaper, and Gray Eagle — and is now in production on the FQ-42A, one of the first uncrewed aircraft to carry a fighter designation in U.S. military history.
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Tech & Builds
Detect and Avoid: The Technology Standing Between Drones and the Open Sky
BVLOS operations at scale hinge on one unsolved problem: teaching drones to see and avoid other aircraft without a pilot's eyes. A look at the cooperative and non-cooperative sensing, competing standards, and hardware programs racing to close that gap.
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Defense & Combat
Air-Launched Effects and Drone Motherships: How Stacking Range Reshapes Aerial Warfare
Air-launched effects (ALE) divorce mission risk from platform cost by stacking a mothership's standoff range on top of a drone's own reach — letting aircraft dispense swarms deep inside defended airspace without entering it. From DARPA's Gremlins to China's Jiutian, the concept is going mainstream.
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Defense & Combat
Wing Loong and Rainbow: China's MALE Drone Arsenal Explained
China's AVIC and CASC have placed combat-capable MALE drones in more than a dozen countries Washington would never supply. Here's how the Wing Loong and Rainbow (CH) families compare, what they've done in combat, and why they keep winning export contracts.
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Defense & Combat
MQ-1C Gray Eagle: The Army's Only MALE Drone, Caught Between Congress and Obsolescence
The MQ-1C Gray Eagle is the U.S. Army's sole medium-altitude long-endurance drone — a Predator descendant rebuilt around Army logistics, manned-unmanned teaming, and ground-force integration. Now Congress and Army leadership are openly fighting over whether it has a future.
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Defense & Combat
MQ-9 Reaper Explained: Platform, Variants, and the Replacement Reckoning
The MQ-9 Reaper defined two decades of American persistent strike and surveillance, but Houthi losses have forced a survivability reckoning. Full platform profile — specs, variants, operators, combat record, and the MQ-9 Next requirement.
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Defense & Combat
Collaborative Combat Aircraft Explained: Loyal Wingmen, Attritable Economics, and the Autonomy Problem
Collaborative Combat Aircraft are semi-autonomous armed platforms built to fly alongside crewed fighters, running strikes, EW, and ISR while the pilot sets objectives rather than flies the drone. From the USAF's competing YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A to Australia's Ghost Bat, here is the full picture.
