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Bombardier Delivers First HADES ISR Jet, Army Expects Integrated Platform Ready By Early ‘27

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, November 25th, 2024

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Bombardier Delivers First HADES ISR Jet, Army Expects Integrated Platform Ready By Early ‘27

The Bombardier Global 6500 aircraft delivered to the U.S. Army in support of the HADES program. Photo: Bombardier Defense.

Bombardier Defense has delivered the first Global 6500 aircraft for the Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) program, with the service expecting the first fully-integrated platform ready by late 2026 or early 2027. Lt. Gen. Anthony Hale, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence, told reporters on Monday that the HADES next-generation aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) jet will address the service’s “number one large scale combat operations gap,” deep sensing. “This aircraft coming off the…

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