Today's warriors are fighting without getting in harm's way, using drones to attack targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Major Morgan Andrews is one such combatant. He ...
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MILESTONE REACHED: The RQ-1/MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle recently achieved 100,000 flight hours, San Diego, Calif.-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. said Oct. 14. The milestone ...
The drones were first brought to the U.S. southern border in 2005 and retrofitted for surveillance operations. Homeland ...
"As far as I know, everything's accounted for," said Lt. Col. Martin Compton, at the command based in Tampa, Fla. Iraq brought down a Predator reconnaissance craft on Dec. 23, in what U.S. officials ...
Military use of remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, dates back to World War I experiments with practice targets, while guided aerial weapons were operational by World War II. But it took advances in ...
— -- Produced by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of San Diego, the Predator UAV drones are 27 feet long with a wingspan of approximately 49 feet. With a loiter time of up to 40 hours and a ...
The Air Force has added MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles to its top combat exercise as it prepares to experiment with news ways to conduct air campaigns in future years in contested air space, ...
As part of the massive deployment of federal law enforcement and even active duty troops to Los Angeles, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations (AMO) department has been ...
RENEWING CAE Inc. received a five-year C$14-million ($9.9-million) contract renewal to train USAF crews on the Predator UAV. The Canadian company is to provide interactive computer-based training, ...