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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

An MQ-1 Predator drone arrived at the Fargo Air Museum on Thursday, Aug. 20. The aircraft, on loan from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, is of the type the 119th Wing of the North Dakota ...

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 ...

Wave a tear-stained handkerchief for the drone that changed the face of air war: The Air Force won’t buy any more Predators. The Reaper drone is about to be in full effect. This year, the Air ...