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 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 [...]