Give the commander that hip pocket firepower, that hip pocket ISR as far forward as we can get it.

That's unmatched by any other platform in the Air Force.

Out of all my years in the Air Force, 35 years and 47, 4800 hours, it has the most advanced avionics in the cockpit of anything I flew in the Air Force with the garment systems, all the support that it brings with it.

Anything that fits the Mill Standard 1760 interface, we can plug and play.

So you do see the 2.75 inch rockets, the health fires behind me.

We have integrated standoff precision guided munitions, H&P 400 machine guns,

dropped 500-pound class precision-guided bombs.

It has the same level of communications,

and ISR capabilities and even weapons capabilities are some very high-end platform.

So it enables any partner around the world to be able to integrate with the joint force,

whatever it may be operating in that area,

as well as joint forces on the ground.

We did not enter into the Sky Rader name lightly.

If you're a student of history, a student of the war in Southeast Asia,

Sky Rader will jump right to the front of a queue, whether it was cast down south or Sarkap up north.

They were always the one that would be right in the middle of the rescue of any guy on the ground.

They'd be taking a lot of ground fire and very often they didn't make it back.

You know, we are standing on the shoulders of giants.

I am absolutely sure that we will meet that requirement. Today we're in Waco, Texas, at L3 Harris, and we're getting an exclusive look at the plane you see behind me, the Sky Rader 2 International.

This plane really is the Swiss Army knife when it comes to what you're able to hang underneath it,

from armament to sensors, providing intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, as well as kinetic effects on the battle space.

The SkyRater 2 carries the legacy of the original A1 Sky Rader from the Vietnam era.

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