{"id":438034,"date":"2026-05-25T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-mq-reaper-triple-redundant-avionics-keep-flying-40-hours-straight\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:00:18","slug":"how-the-mq-9-reapers-triple-redundant-avionics-keep-it-flying-for-40-hours-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=438034","title":{"rendered":"How The MQ-9 Reaper&#8217;s Triple-Redundant Avionics Keep It Flying For 40 Hours Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"267665\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/general-dynamics\/\"  >General Dynamics<\/a><\/span> MQ-9 Reaper is an evolution of the older Predator drone (it&#8217;s also called the Predator B). While it is sometimes said <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2037940\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-longest-furthest-general-atomics-rq-9-reaper-drone-remain-flying\/\" >the MQ-9 ER (Extended Range) variant achieves 40+ hours in endurance<\/a><\/span>, this is somewhat deceptive. Endurance hinges on a range of factors, including payload, the altitude at which it is operated, and other mission-specific considerations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MQ-9 remains useful partly thanks to its extremely high endurance as well as its reliability thanks to its triple-redundant avionics.<\/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":[396,4160,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-drones","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438034","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=438034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438035,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438034\/revisions\/438035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}