Aircraft
Armed agplane ready for ISR duty
Making its debut at Paris this year is the Air Truck AT-802U, an armed utility version of the popular Air Tractor AT-802.

Making its debut at Paris this year is the Air Truck AT-802U, an armed utility version of the popular Air Tractor AT-802. The AT-802 and its predecessors are widely used for agricultural duties, and are also employed by the U.S. State Department for drug eradication duties in Latin America. Now, Air Tractor Inc. has transformed its agplane into a counterinsurgency attacker and intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) platform for use in asymmetric warfare scenarios.

Current operations have revealed a need for a flexible armed ISR asset that can loiter for hours in direct support of ground forces, preferably with low operating costs. Having such a platform overhead provides an instant intervention capability against pop-up threats, as well as giving ground forces a significant on-station command and control capability.

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