{"id":5312,"date":"2023-03-16T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T00:04:49","slug":"what-is-mq-9-reaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-mq-9-reaper\/","title":{"rendered":"What is MQ 9 Reaper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About MQ 9 Reaper:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The MQ-9 Reaper, also known as Predator B, is an <strong>unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)<\/strong> capable of remotely <strong>controlled or<\/strong> <strong>autonomous flight operations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI),<\/strong> primarily <strong>for<\/strong> the <strong>United States Air Force (USAF).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>remotely operated by a two-person team<\/strong> consisting of a pilot and an aircrew member who operates sensors and guides weapons.<\/li>\n<li>The US uses the MQ-9 Reaper <strong>for both surveillance and strikes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>11 metres long<\/strong> with a <strong>wingspan of over 22 metres.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Reapers can be <strong>armed with air-to-ground Hellfire missiles<\/strong> as well as <strong>laser-guided bombs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It carry as many as <strong>16 Hellfire missiles<\/strong>, equivalent to the payload capacity of an Apache helicopter.<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>fly at an altitude of 50,000 ft<\/strong> (15 km) and can <strong>loiter over<\/strong> <strong>targets<\/strong> for for <strong>over 27 hours.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Top speed: 275 mph.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Hellfire missiles?<\/h3>\n<p>Hellfire is an air-to-ground, laser guided, subsonic missile with significant anti-tank capacity. It can also be used as an air-to-air weapon against helicopters or slow-moving fixed-wing aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/us\/mq-9-reaper-all-about-the-us-drone-that-crashed-into-the-black-sea\/articleshow\/98645377.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>MQ-9 Reaper: All about the US drone that crashed into the Black Sea<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MQ-9 Reaper is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}