Drone maker unveils ‘low-cost’ alternative to MQ-9 Reaper

Cheaper Reaper? Swarm Aero Unveils Gamera

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Drone maker unveils ‘low-cost’ alternative to MQ-9 Reaper

Swarm Aero said its Gamera design will deliver more capabilities than the MQ-9 Reaper at a fraction of the cost.

Swarm Aero debuts Gamera drone in bid to succeed Reaper

“What we’ve done cuts against the conventional wisdom,” Swarm co-founder and chief revenue officer Oliver Palmer told Breaking Defense. “And what we’ve done instead is create a very simple, non-stealthy aircraft that’s optimized for extreme range.”

Swarm Aero Tosses Hat In The Ring For Massed Modular Aircraft

Swarm Aero on Monday unveiled Gamera, the company’s offering for the Air Force’s future Massed Modular Aircraft (MMA) to replace the current MQ-9A Reaper surveillance and strike drones. Gamera will […]

Swarm Unveils Gamera: A New Category of Low-Cost, Global Reach Aircraft for Persistent Strike and Sensing to Transform Global Power Projection

Mass-producible, significantly lower cost than legacy platforms, and the first UAS specifically designed to employ bomber-class strike munitions such as LRASM/JASSM-ER, Gamera delivers all of the capabilities needed in the next generation of UAS, at 10X lower cost-per-effect than legacy approaches to strike. With 9,000 nautical miles of unrefueled range, Gamera’s unique combination of low [...]