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A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron armed with an AIM-9X missile sits on the ramp on September 3, 2020 ahead of the ABMS Onramp #2.
The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that the Pentagon had used the R9X variant of the notorious AGM-114 Hellfire missile fired from an MQ-9 Reaper drone to kill two militants associated with ...
In a dramatic escalation, Houthi missiles have successfully shot down another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen, marking the 12th drone downed by the Iran-backed group this month alone. The attack ...
The Defense Department plans to spend $563.5 million in FY19 as the Missile Defense Agency works toward its goal of deploying a laser-armed high-altitude, long-endurance drone by 2023. (J.M ...
The Missile Defense Agency awarded General Atomics another $30.9 million to continue testing the MQ-9 Reaper drone for a role in the Ballistic Missile Defense System.
In a dramatic escalation, Yemen’s Houthi forces have shot down a second American MQ-9 Reaper drone within just 24 hours, using a locally-made surface-to-air missile. The footage shows the exact ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- An MQ-9 Reaper drone has bagged its first air-to-air kill of another small, aerial vehicle in a controlled simulation, an official revealed to Military.com this week.. The ...
A Russian surface-to-air missile nearly hit an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over Syria in a previously undisclosed incident last November, U.S. Central Command confirmed Thursday.
The 100-pound missile has a range of 4.4 miles and is carried by warships like the littoral combat ship, armed KC-130 tanker transports, the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, and the MQ-9 Reaper ...
The MQ-9 Reaper drone is the backbone of the Air Force’s armed drone fleet. As the U.S. shifts to preparing for high-end fights against major adversaries, the Reaper is coming up short.
A U.S. MQ-9 Reaper has crashed in Yemen. It may be the third $30 million drone shot down by the Houthis since November.