100th Aircraft Produced
The bad guys don't like them but who else wouldn't marvel at an
unmanned aircraft? Well, don't answer that.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of
unmanned aircraft systems, announced Thursday that it has produced
the one-hundredth Predator remotely piloted aircraft for the U.S.
Air Force.
Predator has provided the U.S. with intelligence, surveillance,
targeting and reconnaissance information on combat areas
deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans since 1995,
logging over sixty percent of all its flight hours in combat.
Predator is also in use by the U.S. Navy and Italian Air
Force.
Predator 100, like its predecessors, will be flown on an
instrument flight plan in National Air Space f