In cooperation with UK and Netherlands airspace authorities, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) flew a company-owned, MQ-9B SeaGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) on September 2 from RAF Waddington across the North Sea to Leeuwarden Air Base in the Netherlands, completing a two-day series of flights between the two airspaces.
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MQ-9B SeaGuardian is highly modular and is easily configured with a variety of payloads to meet mission requirements from full-spectrum maritime operations to Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) mission payloads, such as Electronic Support Measure (ESM) and Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) (Picture source: GA-ASI)

