| Developers: | General Atomics |
| Branches: | MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX |
| Technology: | UAV - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
2021: Pentagon begins using laser to carry data from space to MQ-9 Reaper drones
At the end of June 2021, the US Space Development Agency announced the launch of satellites into low Earth orbit, which will have to communicate with the MQ-9 Reaper drone through optical channels or lasers. If the pilot is successful, it would pave the way for new, less hacking-prone communications between drones, jets and other weapons, and between commanders and operators. Read more here.
| The site content is translated by machine translation software powered by PROMT. The machine-translated articles are not always perfect and may contain errors in vocabulary, syntax or grammar. Read original article If you find inaccuracies or errors in the results of machine translation, please write to editor@tadviser.ru. We will make every effort to correct them as soon as possible. |