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The long dominance of expensive, long-endurance drones like the $30 million MQ-9 Reaper may be ending as threats to them ...
The Predator is part of a remotely piloted aircraft system. A fully operational system consists of four sensor/weapon-equipped aircraft, ground control station, Predator Primary Satellite Link ...
One of the Civil Air Patrol’s Cessna 182s is retrofitted with all the instruments (but no weapons) of an MQ-1 Predator drone ... new joint terminal attack controllers, or JTACs, the soldier ...
Author Mark Bowden writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Though unmanned, remote-controlled ... Later renamed the Predator, it quickly became the U.S. military's preferred surveillance tool.