A pair of Russian Su-27 aircraft intercepted a US MQ-9 drone. “They dumped fuel upon and struck the propeller of the MQ-9,” ...

The MQ-9 Reaper has increasingly fallen behind newer drone variants—and grown more susceptible to anti-air efforts from the ground. The GA-ASI MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is the first ...

The hardware upgrades for those ground control stations are focused on the datalink capability for the MQ-9B, which includes a new datalink rack and the company’s Interface Multiplexor Encryptor, ...

Why the MQ-9 dominates armed drone operations globally ...

Project Iron Agility is a dynamic exercise which sharpens deployment readiness skills through ACE operations with F-16s, MQ-9 Reapers, and integrated logistics support. The third iteration of the ...

A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a pricey US “Reaper” surveillance drone earlier this week — forcing it to crash into the Black Sea in an incident condemned as “reckless” by the US ...

For almost as long as there's been aerial warfare, unmanned drones always have had a place on the battlefield. As early as World War I, people were strapping bombs to wooden bi-planes with piston ...

The MQ-9 Reaper has long been a cornerstone of U.S. military operations, providing surveillance, reconnaissance, and precision strike capabilities across multiple conflict zones. However, growing ...

An MQ-9 Reaper aircrew flies a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range, Jan. 14, 2020. (Airman 1st Class William Rio Rosado/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The Air Force is looking for a ...