{"id":162353,"date":"2024-12-29T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-longest-furthest-general-atomics-rq-9-reaper-drone-remain-flying\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T03:00:27","slug":"what-is-the-longest-furthest-a-general-atomics-rq-9-reaper-drone-can-remain-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=162353","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Longest &amp; Furthest A General Atomics RQ-9 Reaper Drone Can Remain Flying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MQ-9 Reaper (together with its MQ-1 Predator predecessor) has become iconic of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> strikes in hotspots around the world. While they are very vulnerable in contested airspace (as is seen with         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2035572\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-us-mq-9-reaper-drones-shot-down-over-yemen\/\" >the Houthis of Yemen downing many of them<\/a><\/span>), they are extremely capable in permissive environments. Despite their high price tag (around $30 million each),         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2037670\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/countries-acquiring-mq-9b-skyguardian-drones\/\" >countries around the world (like India and Poland) are ordering large numbers of them<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-range Reaper drones have endurance from 20 hours to over 40 hours depending on variant and configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,4160,408,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-drones","category-history","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162354,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162353\/revisions\/162354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}