General Atomics has been tasked by the Italian Air Force to install the Rafael RecceLite reconnaissance pod on the latter’s MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle.
By SSgt Ricky Best [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
CEO Linden Blue is positive on the development and feels it “could lead to similar efforts with other NATO customers that operate MQ-9.”
Flight testing will be carried out in early 2017 at Amendola Air Base, Italy.