Global Hawk's smaller cousin is the Predator, made by a former General Dynamics unit, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems.

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Predator drones are built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. of San Diego.

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General Atomics expects the Air Force to buy as many as 375 Reapers.

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This week ARPA-E announced it is funding General Atomics to build a flow battery using well-known, and cheap, lead acid chemistry.

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General Atomics, the manufacturer of the Predator and the Reaper, argues that its later models have more backup systems to prevent those momentary losses of control.

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It's deploying another General Atomics plane known as the Sky Warrior, which takes a greater degree of the plane's control out of the hands of humans.

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In 2010, U.S.-based General Atomics received export licenses to sell unarmed versions of the Predator drone to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.

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