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Marine Corps Commandant Says MQ-9 Has Cloaking Pod

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024

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Marine Corps Commandant Says MQ-9 Has Cloaking Pod

A U.S. Marine Corps MQ-9A with Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron (VMU) 3, Marine Aircraft Group 24, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, launches on Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, June 21, 2023. (Photo: U.S. Marine Corps by Cpl. Christian Tofteroo).

The commandant of the Marine Corps Tuesday said the service’s MQ-9 Reaper drones have an electronic warfare pod that makes it “mostly undetectable” to opponent radars. “What they bring with them is a sensing and making sense capability…some of the programs are classified. Some of the pods that go on our MQ-9s are classified, it's called a T-SOAR pod. And what it does is it, I guess in the unclassed world…it can mimic things that are sent to it that…

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