Inside the Army’s Newest Spy Plane
Already watching over Ukraine, Leidos’ ARTE
MIS is part of the service’s growing fleet of contractor-owned intelligence aircraft.
MARCUS WEISGERBER | DECEMBER 15, 2022
From a distance, the all-white business jet parked neatly in a hangar underneath a giant American flag looks a lot like the other sleek, luxurious private planes arriving and departing from this Virginia airport. But inside, this plane is far more working class.
The cabin, full of server racks, looks more like an IT closet than an executive aircraft. The seats are cloth and two computer consoles are connected to a dozen or so antennas protruding from the plane’s belly.
To the U.S. Army, this plane—or something like it—is a ticket to the future of warfare, built to monitor the complex communications of an adversary nation-state from standoff distance, rather than the simpler chatter of insurgents right below.
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