aircraft design and production

Whether you call them Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (or simply lump them altogether as "drones"), these seemingly overnight sensations are actually decades in the making. UAV.com is a new forum for conversation on what we'll call Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), flying systems of varying sizes and capabilities, currently linked only by the requirement that no traditional human pilot is riding inside at the controls. Who are we? General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., makers of the industry-defining Predator and Reaper UAV families, with over three decades at the forefront of this segment of aviation history. We've designed more than two dozen UAV types, delivered more than 1,100 aircraft, and flown them more than eight million flight hours, mostly in combat. It's all we do. We remember a time when you couldn't give a UAV.

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