The Air Force wants to purchase an extended-range version of the MQ-9 Reaper, allowing the service to strike deeper into enemy territory using fewer vehicles in a post-Afghanistan environment.“They’ve approved it; it’s a matter of details now,” Chris Pehrson, director for strategic development with Reaper builder General Atomics, told Defense News, a sister publication to Air Force Times. “The program is going to go forward.”
Although the service will not comment on future budget submissions, with one spokesman calling it “premature,” a senior Defense Department source said the program will be one of the few new starts in the 2014 budget request due to Congress this month.
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