The unmanned aircraft flying over eastern North Dakota on a cold February morning isn't the kind you'd fly in your back yard. The Predator is about the size of small private aircraft.

The Predator drone was ugly, slow and unreliable. Despite those drawbacks, the aircraft quickly exceeded expectations; within a decade, it had transformed the very nature of warfare and spawned a ...

The MQ-1 Predator is one of the best military drones in the world. Here's how fast it can go and what one costs for the United States to make.

Drone aircraft—or, as the Air Force prefers, unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs—were not unprecedented. In World War II, radio-controlled B-24s were sent on bombing missions over Germany.