Tanner Yackley, a former drone sensor operator with the US Air Force, spent years flying remote combat missions, tracking targets, and executing high-stakes strikes — all from a windowless room ...

The U.S. Air Force revealed last week that its drone units have been training for an "unmanned" war in the contested South China Sea as regional tensions continue to rise. The "Reaper Smoke" annual ...

A US Air Force (USAF) exercise for operators of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper has featured a Chinese air base. The Reaper Smoke competition, hosted at Hurlburt Field, Florida ...

Marines on the East Coast will soon have their own MQ-9A Reaper training unit, which will train pilots and sensor operators from spring 2025. An MQ-9A Reaper from the VMUT-2 (Marine Unmanned Aerial ...