The technological evolutions of the MQ-9 drone have ushered a new era of warfare in which killing a target is easier than ...

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,” ...

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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 Italian Air Force released the first photos of the new MQ-9A Block 5 delivered last year, shortly after the announcement of a possible Foreign Military Sale to double the RPA fleet. The Italian ...

Amid escalating tensions along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone has been deployed over Afghanistan ...

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 ...

Holloman AFB is home to the 49th Wing, the Air Force’s largest F-16 and MQ-9 FTU (Formal Training Unit). Held for three weeks beginning Mar. 13, 2025, the unique exercise has been increasingly ...

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 ...

The Reaper was the backbone of American air power during Afghanistan and Iraq, but the MQ-9 would struggle against a dedicated anti-air adversary. The combat employment emphasizes a decentralized ...

A senior U.S. defense official confirmed Wednesday that the Iranian-backed Houthis shot down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone near the Yemeni Coast. "We can confirm that a U.S. military MQ-9 remotely-piloted ...

A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone has conducted a landing on a remote dirt strip for the first time. Connected with the landing, the service also demonstrated the MQ-9's ability to carry small, but ...