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POLICY OPTIONS FOR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
Summary Figure 1.
Medium-Sized and Large Unmanned Aircraft Designed for Conducting Reconnaissance and Attacking Ground Targets RQ-4 Global Hawk/ Broad Area Maritime Surveillance
MQ-1 Predator
MQ-SXa
MQ-9 Reaper
MQ-1C Grey Eagle
MQ-5 Hunter RQ-7 Shadow MQ-8 Firescout
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Source: Congressional Budget Office. Note: All aircraft are drawn to the same scale. The silhouette figure is a 6-foot-tall soldier, also drawn to scale. a. The MQ-SX is a notional unmanned aircraft system based on existing aircraft systems that is more capable than the Predator class in speed and altitude and less capable than the Global Hawk class. The illustration shows relative size but does not represent the actual design of the notional aircraft.
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