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Predator operators at Balad Camp Anaconda, Iraq, August 2007. Each Predator air vehicle can be disassembled into six modules and loaded into a container. This enables all system components and support equipment to be rapidly deployed worldwide. The largest component is the ground control station (GCS) which is designed to roll into a C-130 ...
The contract also includes six ground control stations, two new aircraft hangars, training and sustainment. The MQ-9Bs are to be stationed at 14 Wing Greenwood with 55 personnell and 19 Wing Comox, B.C with 25 personnel and in Ottawa with 160 staff at the main ground control centre and personnel forward deploying in northern Canada as required ...
[6] [7] The Avenger will use the same ground support infrastructure as the MQ-1 and MQ-9, including the ground control station and existing communications networks. [4] The Avenger can also carry and deploy other unmanned systems to achieve stand-off survivability and achieve a penetrating capability at the same time. [8]
The inside of the RQ-7A Shadow 200 GCS. UAV ground control station (GCS) is a land- or sea-based control centre that provides the facilities for human control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or "drones"). [1] It may also refer to a system for controlling rockets within or above the atmosphere, but this is typically described as a Mission ...
General Atomics Mojave. The General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle (previously the Warrior; also called Sky Warrior and ERMP or Extended-Range Multi-Purpose) [2] is a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS). It was developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) for the United States Army as an upgrade of the ...
The "D" sequence is assigned to ground control stations for UAVs. [7] D-1 – General Atomics, ground equipment for the MQ-1 Predator; D-2 – Northrop Grumman, ground equipment for the RQ-4 Global Hawk; D-3 – Northrop Grumman, ground equipment for the MQ-4C Triton; D-4 – Northrop Grumman, ground equipment for the MQ-8 Fire Scout
MQ-1 Predator. The 214th Attack Group is a unit of the Arizona Air National Guard 's 162d Fighter Wing (162 FW), stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, with an additional operating location at Libby Army Airfield at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. [1] [2] [3] If activated to federal service with the United States Air Force, the 214 RG is ...
On May 7, 2010 the DoD and Air Force decided to assign the 178th a new mission. They were made a ground control station for the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator. Along with this mission came the associated intelligence analysis mission. Conversion to the MQ-1 began in 2010. The mission is under the control of Air Combat Command. Pilots based in ...