July 30, 2010: The manufacturer of the MQ-1 Predator UAV, General Atomics, is now marketing the unarmed version, the RQ-1, to civilian customers, as the Predator XP. By modifying it so that it's ...

The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built by General Atomics and used primarily by the United States Air Force (USAF) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Coinciding with the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. Department of Defense was developing an operational drone ...

Click on the UAV icons below to learn more about the Predator and some of its UAV ancestors. — Lexi Krock Years before the first manned airplane flight on December 17, 1903, primitive UAV ...

An MQ-1 Predator sits on the flight line after an ... But it took advances in electronics and satellite technology to realize unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, were capable of being controlled ...