I-GNAT UAV And SKY WARRIOR UAV Multi Purpose Technology

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of privately-held General Atomics, is a leading manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars, and surveillance systems. The company’s Aircraft Systems Group is a leading designer and manufacturer of proven, reliable UAS. It also manufactures a variety of solid-state digital ground control stations (GCS) and provides pilot training and support services for UAS field operations. The Reconnaissance Systems Group designs,
manufactures, and integrates the Lynx Synthetic Aperture/Ground Moving Target Indicator (SAR/GMTI)
radar and the highly sophisticated CLAW® sensor payload control and image analysis software onto both manned and unmanned surveillance aircraft.

It also integrates other sensor and communication equipment into manned intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft and develops emerging technologies in solid-state lasers, electro-optical sensors, and ultra-wideband data links for government applications. Leading the industry to new levels of performance, reliability, and operational capability since its establishment in 1993, GA-ASI has expanded the acceptance and application of UAS within the United States and among allied forces around the globe. The company is dedicated to providing long-endurance, mission-capable aircraft with the integrated sensor and data link systems required to deliver persistent, wide area situational awareness and rapid strike capabilities.

GA-ASI has over 4,000 employees at multiple facilities in the San Diego area and in the Mojave Desert, just east of Los Angeles. Unmanned airCraFt SYStemS GA-ASI is revolutionizing aviation by expanding the capabilities of UAS, making them viable alternatives to manned aircraft for a variety of missions. The company continues to push the envelope with innovative high-tech UAS solutions that have produced an ever-growing line of versatile, reliable, cost-effective, and combat-proven aircraft.

I-GNAT UAV

The I-GNAT UAS series offers the benefits of a long-loiter aircraft with over 40 hours of endurance, a large payload capacity, ease of use, and low maintenance requirements while providing a very low cost-per-flight-hour. I-GNAT, an improved version of the original GNAT-750, is designed to take off and land conventionally from any hard surface and is in operation with the U.S. Government and foreign militaries.

SKY WARRIOR UAV
Sky Warrior UAS, a Predator derivative, was designed to meet the U.S. Army’s Extended Range Multi Purpose (ER/MP) requirement for a non-developmental solution for persistent ISR and tactical strike operations. Powered by a heavy-fuel engine and featuring the same redundant flight systems and surfaces as in
the Predator B, the aircraft provides persistent wide-area surveillance with long-endurance communications relay, and weapons delivery missions, with twice the weapons capacity of Predator.

SKY WARRIOR UAV

SYStem oPeration and ControL GA-ASI manufactures a variety of solid-state digital GCS featuring high mobility and portability that are in operation around the world today. These stations allow direct, real-time control of the aircraft and their onboard sensors that provide intelligence to customers located on land, in an aircraft, or on a ship anywhere in the world. Each aircraft is controlled by a pilot in a GCS through a C-Band line-of-sight (LOS) data link at ranges up to 150 nautical miles, or autonomously to the range limits of the aircraft. For routine overthe  horizon control, a Ku-Band satellite data link is also available on Predator and Predator B series aircraft.

Currently under development, the flight-tested and ergonomically designed Advanced Cockpit GCS offers game-changing situational awareness and mission effectiveness with features that include 3D moving maps, a panoramic synthetic-enhanced horizon, highdefinition video, multi-aircraft control, a fused operational picture,
and intuitive touch screen displays and controls. The company also manufactures a Remote Video Terminal (RVT) that provides real-time imagery directly from the aircraft to war fighters in the field, on ships, or in the air.