2006年10月13日 · “With the highest full-mission capability rate of any operational U.S. Army unmanned aircraft system [UAS], the Army I-GNAT ER, a derivative of the combat-proven Predator, continues to prove its worth as one of the most …

2005年3月10日 · IGNAT fitted with the General Atomics AN/APY-8 Lynx synthetic aperture radar installed in a 48cm diameter undernose radome. The IGNAT-ER system has a maximum endurance of 40 hours at an altitude of 8,000m. The US Army's IGNAT-ER extended range unmanned air vehicle.

General Atomics GNAT is a long endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) which serves as a surveillance and reconnaissance platform. It was introduced by the US Army in 1994 carrying electro-optical payloads such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Electronics Support Measures (ESM), Electronic Countermeasures (ECM), etc.

2006年8月31日 · Officials at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), in San Diego announced that their Army I-GNAT ER unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has reached a record 10,000 combat flight hours...

Flying a total of more than 700 hours a month between two deployment sites, the Army I-GNAT ER family of three combat aircraft achieved 10,000 combat flight hours four years earlier than even the company’s flagship Predator® UAS.

2008年4月7日 · The milestone was achieved by two different Army I-GNAT® ER aircraft, AI-001 and AI-1005, within days of each other while performing combat missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced that a U.S. Army UAS has reached a record 10,000 flight hours on a single aircraft. The milestone was achieved by two different Army I-GNAT ER aircraft, AI-001 and AI-1005, within days of each other while performing combat missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

In 2003, the U.S. Army procured three I-Gnat ER UAVs to supplement its RQ-5 Hunter and RQ-7 Shadow 200 tactical UAVs. These I-Gnats are equipped to launch the AGM-114 Hellfire and FIM-92 Stinger guided missiles from underwing hardpoints.

2003年5月27日 · The U.S. Army, along with the Navy and Air Force, have currently procured the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems' IGNAT, Predator and Predator B aircraft, bringing the total procured by the U.S. government to well over a hundred aircraft.

Field manual interim (FMI) 3-04.155 is the Army’s keystone doctrine for how to fight and sustain Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The doctrinal basis for operational concepts described in this manual are established in field manual (FM) 1, FM 3-0, and FM 3-04.111.