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Originally Posted by svandamme
from my understanding Reapers are controlled in theater, not from the US
Global Hawks , well they global. They have close to 30 hours endurance or something controlled from the US, they fly out from the US to theater and back or from Guam I would think they would be piloted from Guam as well because else the Squadron would have people in 2 different places.. seems contra productive to me. like that
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I was involved with these platforms for many years. I managed all Navy and Marine Corps UAS for almost 5 years and worked extremely closely with the Air Force and Army.
Control can be local or in theater or global for either platform. MQ-9 have been and continue to be controlled from Creech AFB outside of Las Vegas. I have been there many times. Amazing place, really.
The desire is to bring as much automation in terms of flight as possible, including "learning" as the flights progress.
PM me Robert with any questions. I could bore the stuffing out of you guys.