It was playing a real-time video feed from a Predator drone -- the same video McCurley said was being beamed to high-level officials in Washington, D.C., more than 7,000 miles away.

The U.S. Air Force has announced that it is officially moving to retire the MQ-1 Predator drone in early 2018 with the newer MQ-9 Reaper drone to better address its combat needs. The Predator has ...

The Predator can fly nearly 500 miles to a target and linger in the air for 14 hours Tech. Sgt. Beth Holliker A fully-loaded Predator, like this one, weighs 2,250 pounds ...

Jan. 12, 2010— -- Far from the mountains of Afghanistan, an American Air Force base sits in California. It is here where unmanned Predator drones are flown by remote control. They're America ...

Al Qaeda and the Taliban haven’t been able to bring down the CIA’s Predator drones. But a new lawsuit alleging parts of their targeting software are pirated (and faulty) could. On December 7 ...

Flashcard: Predator Drone Strikes. By Marc Ambinder. September 9, 2010. ... The CIA's targeting list is not limited to members of Al Qaeda: drones now target militants and drug lords.

On Sept. 28, 2000, the first CIA Predator drone took off from a base in Uzbekistan on its maiden flight and soon spotted “a tall man in flowing white robes” in a compound just outside ...

A lonely Predator drone sits in an airplane hanger at the Creech, Air Force base in Nevada, June, 2015. PATRICK TUCKER / DEFENSE ONE Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET.

Once closely guarded military secrets, remotely operated Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are now widely known to play a vital role in modern wars. But even while most people recognize that UAS are ...

In less than a week, target data captured by a drone is available on an online “intelligence knowledge base” that is published on the coalition’s internal websites. Gallery: Inside a ...

Stealth Drone; Target Practice: ... U.S. Predator Drones Leave Africa After five years of steady operations, the United States no longer has any MQ-1 Predators based in Djibouti.