General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
Robot types: Uas. Risk band: High RobotRisk index 48.4/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 4 of 26 among Drones / eVTOL companies with incidents (550 tracked).
Analyst brief
One entry attributes a single aircraft loss to a chafed wire; the second reports that roughly one-quarter of the deployed MQ-9 fleet was lost during operations in the Iran conflict. Both entries carry severity 4 and describe mission-loss and crash outcomes rather than casualties. The two-entry record concentrated in a single month reflects a cluster of fleet-level attrition events rather than an extended pattern, and the record is press-driven rather than regulator-driven.
Risk index
Products and robot types
Industries: Drones / eVTOL (primary), Defense / space · Sectors: Armed Forces
Risk is scored per product and robot type: each incident is attributed to the product it names, or to the company's matching robot type. Listed industry was Defense / space; RobotRisk files this company under Drones / eVTOL because that is where its documented incident risk sits.
| Robot type | Share of company risk | Rank within type |
|---|---|---|
| Uas | 100% | 2 of 8 |
| Product | Robot type | Status | Incidents | Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQ-9 Reaper | Uas | shipping | 2 | 48.4 |
Incident timeline
Comparisons over time
Per-type breakdown
| Incident type | Unique incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mission-loss | 1 | 50% |
| crash | 1 | 50% |
Unique incident list
2 unique incidents on file for this company.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S4 | 13 Aug 2026 | mission-loss | — | US lost roughly 25% of MQ-9 Reaper drone fleet during Iran war · 25% of US Reaper fleet (~45 aircraft) lost | The Washington Post / Je |
| S4 | 31 Aug 2025 | crash | — | MQ-9 Reaper lost in Middle East due to chafed wire · 1 aircraft | Air & Space Forces Magaz |
S4 13 Aug 2026 · mission-loss · US lost roughly 25% of MQ-9 Reaper drone fleet during Iran war
| Sev | Date | Supporting source row | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| S4 | 13 Aug 2026 | US lost roughly 25% of MQ-9 Reaper drone fleet during Iran war | The Washington Post / Je |
S4 31 Aug 2025 · crash · MQ-9 Reaper lost in Middle East due to chafed wire
| Sev | Date | Supporting source row | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| S4 | 31 Aug 2025 | MQ-9 Reaper lost in Middle East due to chafed wire | Air & Space Forces Magaz |
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