{"id":542,"date":"2025-08-12T21:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/marines-fly-mq-9-reaper-with-skytower-ii-and-rdess-soar-pods\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:47:02","slug":"marines-fly-mq-9-reaper-with-skytower-ii-and-rdess-soar-pods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/marines-fly-mq-9-reaper-with-skytower-ii-and-rdess-soar-pods\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines Fly MQ-9 Reaper with SkyTower II and RDESS\/SOAR Pods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GyKCd74XkAEnoLk-460x259.jpeg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"USMC MQ-9 SkyTower II and RDESS\/SOAR\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NAVAIR announced the first flight of the unmanned aircraft with new electronic support and enhanced cross-domain comms. In a post on social media, the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced the first flight of an MQ-9A Reaper, assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (UX) 24, equipped with the SkyTower II and RDESS\/SOAR pods. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2025\/08\/12\/usmc-mq-9-skytower-ii-rdess-soar\/\">Marines Fly MQ-9 Reaper with SkyTower II and RDESS\/SOAR Pods<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/\">The Aviationist<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAVAIR announced the first flight of the unmanned aircraft with new electronic support and enhanced cross-domain comms. In a post on social media, the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced the first flight of an MQ-9A Reaper, assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (UX) 24, equipped with the SkyTower II and RDESS\/SOAR pods. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}