U.S. Air Force Tests MQ-9 Equipped for “Persistent Attack” For the first time, the U.S. Air Force conducted a flight test of the MQ-9A Reaper carrying eight live AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, which doubles the capacity the unmanned aircraft was originally designed to hold. The 556th Test and Evaluation...
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