US Army High-Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES)

It is great for the Army to have such a platform but as a recent AWST article alluded to the unmanned systems it controls wil likely define its utility.
 
Red Wolf?

Seriously though, unless they launch these like U.S. Navy sonar buoy the drag of hanging those things on the wings is going to eat into the range and station time of the aircraft. To go 1000 miles is going to make it a big launched effect I think.
 

New Jets, Drones Will Transform Fort Hood Into Army’s Aerial Intel Hub​

https://www.twz.com/air/new-jets-drones-will-transform-fort-hood-into-armys-aerial-intel-hub
The U.S. Army has announced that its future fleet of ME-11B High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) aircraft will be based at Fort Hood in Texas. The service says it will also establish a first-of-its-kind operational drone battalion at this base as part of a larger consolidation of aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets. This all follows the Army’s retirement of the last of its turboprop ISR planes last year.
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The Army shared the ME-11B basing plans in the context of the relocation of the 116th Military Intelligence Brigade, headquartered at Fort Gordon in Georgia, to Fort Hood.
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The concepts of operations for HADES, as the Army has described them publicly so far, also envision the planes launching extremely long-range drones. With ranges of around 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) or more, the idea is that the drones will dramatically extend the sensor reach of their launch platforms, and keep them further away from hostile air defenses. The service says the air-launched drone capability will offer a way to provide a penetrating intelligence-gathering capacity able to support future high-end operations without the need for a very stealthy or otherwise extremely costly platform.
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