And one of the most impressive—and impressively named—of their ranks was the Ryan Firebee. After the close of the World War II, the US Navy found itself in need of a jet-powered aerial target ...

Long before UAVs dominated the skies, the Ryan Firebee was pushing boundaries as one of the earliest and most advanced jet-powered drones. From Cold War surveillance to live-fire training ...

The FireBee Power Tower can make use of some of the heat produced for cooking food or warming a home to yield an additional harvest of clean electricity for keeping small electronics charged up ...

"Vietnam-era Firebee drones [flew] over Baghdad to drop radar-jamming chaff and, until they ran out of fuel, to circle the city as decoys to draw anti-aircraft fire away from coalition strike ...

Northrop Grumman's BQM-34 modernized Firebee aerial target successfully completed its first flight at the Naval Air Warfare Center in Point Mugu, Calif., the company said Aug. 17. The BQM-34 ...