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The MQ-9 Reaper is getting a new set of eyes:

Two MQ-9 Reapers retrofitted with the new $15 million wide-area aerial surveillance sensors, or WAAS, will fly test missions later this year, and the Air Force plans to have ten such planes in battle by next spring, in rotation on a 24/7 patrol. “It’s an incredible force enhancer,” said Colonel Eric Mathewson, Director of the service’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Task Force at the Pentagon. Sierra Nevada Corporation, makers of the WAAS, chose the name, a spooky reference to the cursed sisters from Greek mythology—Medusa being the Beyoncé of the trio—whose gaze turned men to stone.

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2 comments to Gorgon Stare

  • Nose

    Sierra Nevada Corporation? Do they make Ales also? One of my favorites, but no longer twistys. Very upsetting.

    Happy Friday everyone!

  • The first comment on the article page is priceless. Guy wants to know why his home made remote control airplane isn’t as good as a Reaper.

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