Following the Korean War and the signing of a mutual defense treaty, the U.S. military has approximately 28,500 ...

The MQ-9 drone has the capability to loiter over targets at altitudes of up to 50,000 feet for more than 27 hours. According to General Atomics, the MQ-9 has “demonstrated an air-to-air weapons ...

The Reaper can now be armed with AGM-114 Hellfires, 500-pound laser-guided weapons called GBU-12 Paveway IIs, GBI-38 JDAMS, and a new international navigation systems guidance kit. Kris Osborn is ...

By releasing a GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition from a MQ-9 Reaper in a live weapons exercise, the Air Force made history and vastly widened the attack envelope, target set and mission scope ...

At approximately 7:03 a.m. (CET) on April 14th, 2022, two Sukhoi Su-27 twin-engine Russian jet fighters moved to intercept a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone flying over the Black Sea in the ...

It's the way officials are sending out the MQ-9 Reaper drone for a new, ... The Reaper conducted 950 strikes, shooting off approximately 1,500 weapons, between Jan. 2015 and Aug. 2017, ...

One new possibility for the Reaper drone could be the addition of the GBU-39B or Small Diameter Bomb, senior Air Force weapons developers told Warrior in a prior interview.

A Russian fighter aircraft “did not use airborne weapons or come into contact” with a US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

Future developments and potential enhancements for the MQ-9 Reaper drone Image from Military.com The US Air Force (USAF) started upgrading some parts of its General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ ...

Iran-backed Houthis militants shot down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone conducting surveillance off the coast of Yemen on Wednesday, according to a senior defense official.

The US Air Force is seeking upgrades to its fleet of MQ-9 Reaper drones as its mission shifts from anti-extremist operations to dealing with near-peer adversaries like Russia and China.

The MQ-9 "Reaper" unmanned aerial vehicle can loiter at up to 50,000 feet for more than 27 ... General Atomics says the MQ-9 has "demonstrated an air-to-air weapons capability" in Air Force tests.