The US Army Is Getting a New ISR ‘Mothership’ Aircraft

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The ME-11B HADES aircraft could pair with advanced drones, helping to vastly extend the Army’s battlespace awareness.

The promise behind autonomous, semi-autonomous, and remotely operated technology is opening opportunities in unlikely places.  

The US Army, for example, is aiming to pair its future-generation intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft with extremely long-range drones.

Meet the ME-11B HADES

The utility of unmanned aerial systems increases on a daily basis. The war in Ukraine, in particular, has encouraged innovation in drone warfare. Army officials now seek to use the forthcoming ME-11B High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) aircraft, a heavily modified Bombardier Global 6500 business jet, as a mothership for extremely long-range ISR drones.  

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