The MQ-9 Reaper in Combat

February 13, 2025 01:08:34
The MQ-9 Reaper in Combat
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The MQ-9 Reaper in Combat

Feb 13 2025 | 01:08:34

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Show Notes

This episode features a story from Joe Ritter, an Air Force officer and MQ-9 Reaper pilot. The MQ-9, the largest remotely piloted aircraft in the US military's inventory, has a wide range of the capabilities—from providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to conducting battle damage assessments to helping a ground element direct their fires to striking enemy targets with air-to-ground Hellfire missiles. Ritter and his sensor operator brought all of these capabilities to the fight during a single mission in Afghanistan in October 2018.

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