In 2013, two Iranian F-4 Phantoms moved to intercept a U.S. MQ-1 Predator flying in international airspace. After a 2012 ...

Credit: The MQ-1 Predator spawned the combat UAV revolution, but is being phased out in favor of the huskier MQ-9: U.S. Air Force The U.S. Air Force’s last MQ-1 Predator training squadron at Holloman ...

Military use of remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, dates back to World War I experiments with practice targets, while guided aerial weapons were operational by World War II. But it took advances in ...

The MQ-1C itself is an upgrade of the MQ-1 Predator the U.S. Air Force and CIA used extensively since the late 1990s to redefine the use of aircraft for reconnaissance, surveillance, and airstrikes.

The MQ-1B Predator to be displayed is at the Black Hills Community Appreciation Day is from Creech Air Force Base, Nev. Creech is the home of the 432nd Operations Group, which operates both the MQ-1 ...

On Tuesday, an MQ-1 Predator drone was hanging out over the Persian Gulf, eyeballing items of interest in Iran. As the Pentagon detailed it Thursday: On March 12, an unarmed, unmanned, MQ-1 U.S.

Defense developers are creating micro drones that can fly undetected, provide real-time intelligence, and potentially take on ...

A screenshot of a Russian Su-27 Flanker approaching a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper over the Black Sea from a video released by the Pentagon on March 16. On Thursday, the Pentagon released declassified video from ...

For almost as long as there's been aerial warfare, unmanned drones always have had a place on the battlefield. As early as World War I, people were strapping bombs to wooden bi-planes with piston ...

May 15, 2024: General Atomics, the American firm that developed and builds Predator and Reaper UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), has a new UAV, the three-ton Mohave. This is in development to ...