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The Air Force placed its final order for Reapers in 2020 and manufacturer General Atomics closed the production line last year after building 575 of the drones.
The final aircraft cost about $16 million each when purchased in a batch of four, according to C. Mark Brinkley, a General Atomics spokesman.
The MQ-9 Reaper drones cost an estimated $16 million, according to a spokesman for General Atomics, its manufacturer.
The Air Force said Anduril and General Atomics were ahead of the program’s schedule, which required the companies to conduct a test flight of their aircraft by the end of the year.
“Both Anduril and General Atomics are in the very early developmental stages of what promises great opportunity, but there’s a long way to go to realize that opportunity,” said David Deptula, a retired Air Force lieutenant general who is now dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, an aerospace think tank.
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