The MQ-9 Reaper has increasingly fallen behind newer drone variants—and grown more susceptible to anti-air efforts from the ...

but there's one Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) that most people know: the MQ-1 Predator, which is one of the best military drones in the world. Initially, the Predator was introduced as a ...

Feb. 24 (UPI) --The U.S. Air Force is preparing to phase out its MQ-1 Predator drones in favor of an all-MQ-9 Reaper fleet in 2018. The Predator's retirement will effectively conclude the unmanned ...

A U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator drone crashed after takeoff from Incirlik Air Force Base, Turkey, on Monday -- just four days after the same type of unmanned aerial vehicle crashed in the same region.

From the earliest days of the War on Terror, the U.S. has had one weapon that none of its enemies -- and few of its allies -- possessed: drones.Specifically, MQ-1 Predator drones built by ...

The U.S. Air Force has announced that it is officially moving to retire the MQ-1 Predator drone in early 2018 with the newer MQ-9 Reaper drone to better address its combat needs.

A new non-combat record was set on Oct. 2, 2012 by the 29th Attack Squadron, 9th Attack Squadron, and the 6th Reconnaissance Squadron which flew six MQ-9 Reapers and four MQ-1 Predators ...

(Senior Airman Haley Stevens/U.S. Air Force) Accepted in 2002 and promptly deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, the armed Predator was designated the MQ-1 (multirole drone). On Dec. 23, 2002 ...

An MQ-1 Predator drone that crashed about 8.6 miles northwest of Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico in October lost its satellite communications link with its pilot before flipping over and ...

The Air Force has already begun transitioning from the MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft ... The Block 5 variant of the unmanned aerial vehicle flew a sortie of more than 16 hours in support ...