Long before UAVs dominated the skies, the Ryan Firebee was pushing boundaries as one of the earliest and most advanced jet-powered drones. From Cold War surveillance to live-fire training ...

And one of the most impressive—and impressively named—of their ranks was the Ryan Firebee. After the close of the World War II, the US Navy found itself in need of a jet-powered aerial target ...

The FireBee Power Tower can make use of some of the heat produced for cooking food or warming a home to yield an additional harvest of clean electricity for keeping small electronics charged up ...

With a 12-ft. 10-in. wingspan, the Firebee can fly at a maximum altitude of 61,000 ft., attains speeds of up to 633 m.p.h., and can stay up for an hour and a half. It is launched from a mother ...

A newly refurbished Ryan BQM-34F Firebee drone now hangs from the ceiling of a hangar at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, marking the latest addition to an impressive collection of historic ...

"Vietnam-era Firebee drones [flew] over Baghdad to drop radar-jamming chaff and, until they ran out of fuel, to circle the city as decoys to draw anti-aircraft fire away from coalition strike ...

A Lockheed DC-130 drone control aircraft carrying two BQM-34S Firebee target drones under its wing, circa 1975. They Navy does not like drones. That's why they keep terminating them. Nobody wants ...

Northrop Grumman's BQM-34 modernized Firebee aerial target successfully completed its first flight at the Naval Air Warfare Center in Point Mugu, Calif., the company said Aug. 17. The BQM-34 ...