The MQ-9 Reaper has increasingly fallen behind newer drone variants—and grown more susceptible to anti-air efforts from the ...

Renamed the Predator, it quickly became the U.S. military ... As the United States continued to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, the drones’ cameras and sensors were linked to the global ...

The MQ-1 Predator drone, operational from 1995 ... necessitating additional certified operators,” Sweeny added. The drones’ ...

Hawes used the nose camera to line the Predator up on the tank at an altitude of 2,000 feet, then flew the drone toward the “engagement zone.” Once 3034 entered the zone, Hawes depressed and ...

The American MQ-1 Predator could be considered the first ... using a tablet-style controller with visuals from a camera mounted to the drone. The Switchblade can detonate its payload on impact ...

The executive branch has been criticized for using Predator drones to launch airstrikes that ... bird’s-eye-view cameras, or aerial package delivery services. (Later Monday morning, the Secret ...

When the United States first fired a missile from an armed Predator drone at suspected ... captured by a drone camera and shared with the tablet of an enemy hiding nearby. In the next, the ...

In the time since then, SWAT teams have utilized military-grade, plane-sized Predator drones ... high-speed pursuits. The drone is expected to integrate directly with camera systems and gunshot ...

The MQ-9 Reaper is a newer, larger version of the MQ-1 Predator drone ... $32 million for one of them. Reaper drones are equipped with visual sensors and cameras that make them effective for ...