The Predator system came packaged with four aircraft, a ground control station (GCS), and a primary satellite link communications suite. The system cost ... way for much wider use of drones ...

Like most pieces of military technology, Reapers are among the best military drones in the world, but they aren't cheap. A single unit in 2011 cost ... a MQ-1 Predator, but it's much larger ...

Sukhoi has tinkered with a new version of Hunter-B that buries that engine deep inside the airframe, in the same way that Western firms do with their own stealth drones. As the high-stakes ...

One is its 10 Predator B drones ... it cost at least $62.5 million to operate the program, or about $12,255 per hour. The Office of Air and Marine’s calculation of $2,468 per flight hour does ...

Most recently, in January, a critique by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General said — not for the first time— that the drones cost too much and catch too little.