T he Royal Air Force's (RAF) Protector RG Mk1, also known as MQ-9B, has gained a military type certificate (MTC) from the UK Military Aviation Authority following a stringent airworthiness evaluation.

British media outlets are reporting that the Royal Air Force is now flying its MQ-9 Reaper drones from Lincolnshire as well as from Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. The Guardian has reported that ...

General Atomics' MQ-9A Reaper drone hit the 2 million flight ... operated for more than 48,000 hours to support the USAF, the Army, the Marine Corps, NASA, the Italian Air Force, the RAF, ...

The British MoD reports that the MQ-9 Reaper has taken to the air in Afghanistan: The RAF's first Reaper Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Britain's most sophisticated unmanned surveillance system, has ...

MQ-9 Reaper Big Wing sets Predator flight endurance record By David Szondy. June 01, 2016 Facebook; ... the RAF, as well as the forces of France, Italy, and the Netherlands.

On Mar. 18, 2024, after 23.00 LT, a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone carried out an emergency landing in an uninhabited area near Mirosławiec, Poland. 18 marca po godz 23 w okolicach Mirosławca Home ...

The medium-altitude MQ-9B SkyGuardian drone will make its first ever trans-Atlantic flight to the Royal International Air Tattoo in the U.K. next month, General Atomics announced on Monday.

Protector will replace the MQ-9 Reaper in RAF service. Wing Commander Iain Hutchinson, head of CTT, said: ‘Protector represents a step change in RPAS capability and all of us in the CTT are genuinely ...

The first of 16 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9B long-endurance UAVs arrived at RAF Waddington for flight testing, ahead of an expected entry into service in 2024.

This article first appeared on The Daily Signal.. Framed by a matted khaki sky, a Royal Air Force (RAF) MQ-9 Reaper drone armed with four Hellfire missiles and two GBU-12 laser-guided bombs takes ...

An RAF MQ-9 Reaper drone between flights at the coalition base. Tipping Point. An impending Iraqi ground campaign to liberate Mosul could be a tipping point in the war, coalition personnel say.