Since Predator’s historic first flight in 1994, the Predator UAS series has continued to maintain its legacy of groundbreaking industry firsts for unmanned aircraft systems.

Predator UAS Series

• Log over 435,000 flight hours with over 80 percent in combat

Predator

• Perform routine operations with control via a satellite data link
  
  
• Fly over 40 hours
  
  
• Controlled from a submerged submarine
  
  
• Laser designate for another attack aircraft
  
  
• Fire precision-guided missiles (Hellfire, Stinger) in combat
  
  
• Launch and control another UAS
  
  
• Transmit imagery to AC-130 gunships
  
  
• Controlled from an airborne C-130

I-GNAT ER/Sky Warrior Alpha

• Controlled by the U.S. Army’s One System GCS
  
  
• Integrate Lynx SAR/GMTI radar and operationally deploy
  
  
• Reach the highest full-mission capability rate of any operational Army UAS
  
  
• Achieve a record 10,000 combat flight hours in only two years on three aircraft

Predator B/Variants

• Employ GBU-12, GBU-38 precision-guided bombs and Hellfire missiles
  
  
• Operate with a 360° multi-mode maritime radar over a digital satellite data link
  
  
• Fly from Southern California to Alaska
  
  
• Operate above the Arctic Circle and in Canadian NAS with over-the-horizon control
  
  
• Monitor forest fires along the Alaska pipeline
  
  
• Map California wild fires in response to emergency tasking
  
  
• Successfully carry a modified F-16 tactical reconnaissance sensor pod
  
  
• Receive the FAA’s first commercial UAS air worthiness certificate, experimental category
  
  
• Carry an integrated scientific sensor package up to 45,000 feet altitude for 20 hours
  
  
• Patrol the U.S./Mexican border
  
  
• Integrate a MIL STD 1760 Stores Management System
  
  
• Integrate Lynx SAR/GMTI radar and operationally deploy