If it's true that the United States will send one of its scariest drones, the Bayraktar TB2 is like a toy by comparison.
In a recent update, Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, told the Washington Post that she had met with drone manufacturer General Atomics to discuss the possibility of their drones being serviced for Ukraine.
General Atomics is the manufacturer of the Predator combat drone and its powerful successor, the Reaper. The two drones are the mainstay of the United States in the various battles it fights.
The Reaper drone can carry a load of up to 1.7 tons, 10 times that of the Bayraktar TB2, a combat drone from Turkey that Ukraine relies on today.
This drone flight makes almost no sound so that the target of the attack does not notice it.
Controlled by the pilot remotely, the MQ-9 Reaper can fly up to about 400 kilometers per hour and can strike at any location and show its footage.
The Reaper can fly for up to 30 hours, but drops to 23 hours if fully armed.
The Reaper, which costs $64 million to manufacture one unit, can carry up to 4 high-explosive, laser-guided Hellfire missiles.
This drone is equipped with an advanced sensor and radar system. The MTS-B (Multi-Spectral Targeting System) system, for example, can track fast-moving targets.
The Droen Reaper can fly up to a height of 15 kilometers making it ideal for reconnaissance and supporting soldiers below.
Introduced in May 2007, the Reaper drone has been used by America in Afghanistan, Iraq and Africa.
In early 2020, the Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Major General Qasem Soleimani, was killed in a missile attack fired by a Reaper drone.
That time, the MQ-9 Reaper launched a laser-guided Hellfire missile, aiming precisely and destroying Soleimani's convoy. It is known that the MQ-9 Reaper, among others, was flown from the US Central Command headquarters located in Qatar.