Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
European Partners Line Up with GA-ASI
U.S. company is looking for more international customers for its successful UAS. The MQ-9 reaper leads the pack.

After the excitement of last week’s transatlantic flight by the MQ-9B Sky Guardian unmanned aerial system (UAS), Tuesday's media briefing at Farnborough 2018 by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) was a low-key affair. But it served to emphasize the expanding possibilities for adding non-U.S. systems to the latest version of the famous MQ-9 series of UASs, as GA-ASI seeks more international customers. Coincidentally, GA-ASI announced that the Netherlands had confirmed a long-expected order for four MQ-9 Reapers, thus becoming the fifth European operator.