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Research edition · 2026-11-01

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MQ-1C Gray Eagle

The US Army’s armed long-endurance reconnaissance aircraft derived from Predator. It is separate from MQ-9 Reaper and from later Gray Eagle ER, 25M and STOL configurations. The profile keeps the Army’s dated 2014 description beside GA-ASI’s current baseline, making changes in endurance and published speed visible rather than merging them into one specification.[1][2]

Archived research edition. Archive statistics and new dossiers are available on the current profile.

Current profile ↗
17.0688 m8.5344 mTop view

Body length[2] · Wingspan[2]

8.5344 m · Side view · schematic
Top-view bounding dimensions share one metre scale. Internal contours and side profiles are schematic; height is not inferred. Ranges show their largest outline and retain their labels.

The numbers, with their sources

Intervals preserve the published bounds; they are not statistical confidence intervals. A blank lower or upper bound stays open. Values belong to the named configuration, not every aircraft.

Published flight range

Unknown in reviewed sources

Take-off mass

≤ 1633 kg[1]MQ-1C Gray Eagle · GA-ASI current page · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published upper limit

Payload

≤ 488 kg[1]MQ-1C Gray Eagle · GA-ASI current page · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published upper limit

Body length

8.5344 m[2]MQ-1C Gray Eagle · US Army 2014, feet × 0.3048 · 2014
Official report; not an independent test

Wingspan

17.0688 m[2]MQ-1C Gray Eagle · US Army 2014, feet × 0.3048 · 2014
Official report; not an independent test

Endurance

24 h[2]MQ-1C Gray Eagle · US Army 2014, feet × 0.3048 · 2014
Official report; not an independent test≤ 25 h[1]MQ-1C Gray Eagle · GA-ASI current page · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published upper limit

Family & configurations

MQ-1C Gray Eagle

No sourced family relationship recorded in this edition. Similar roles do not establish a common design.

What does it cost?

Published USD figures use different price bases and years. Airframes, export packages and support are not equivalent. These are not current offers or verified production costs.

Unknown in reviewed sources

Source notebook

  1. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems · Gray Eagle current product page

    Publication date not stated · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Manufacturer claim

  2. US Army · MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS: 2014 programme specification

    2014-11-04 · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Official report; not an independent test

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