For the first time in its history, the U.S. Air Force has designated two prototype drones as unmanned fighter aircraft, ...

The US Air Force secretary says it will be “years” before analysts ... one general estimated that it would take 2,000 analysts to go through the information collected by a single Predator drone.

MQ-1 Predator. Image source: U.S. Air Force. Twenty-seven feet long and sporting a 55-foot wingspan, the Predator is nearly as big as an F-16 fighter jet, but weighs just one-sixteenth as much.

Drone pilots currently fly three times as many missions as other pilots. A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport, June 13, 2010. &#151 ...

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) will retire the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — until now the USAF’s main weapon of choice in UAV airstrikes — in ...

The Air Force’s future model for developing and acquiring unmanned aerial vehicles will likely have less emphasis on the platform and sensors and more attention to the data a UAV collects and ...

Feb. 24 (UPI) --The U.S. Air Force is preparing to phase out its MQ-1 Predator drones in favor of an all-MQ-9 Reaper fleet in 2018. The Predator's retirement will effectively conclude the unmanned ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force meshed fearsome with furry in tests of electronic warfare equipment aboard a widely used drone. The service’s 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron in April completed ...

The U.S. Air Force introduced the MQ-9 Reaper drone in 2007 as a larger weapons platform than its predecessor, the MQ-1 Predator drone. The Reaper looks very much like the Predator, only larger ...

The BBC’s Radio 4 has been granted rare insight into the life of a US Air Force predator drone pilot. Retired Lt. Colonel Bruce Black recounted his experiences on the channel’s Broadcasting ...