Five companies are designing long-endurance, ship-based surveillance and strike unmanned aircraft under the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (Darpa) Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. MQ-9 Predator drones were deployed over Los Angeles to monitor anti-ICE protests in June. Rights groups warn ...

May 15, 2024: General Atomics, the American firm that developed and builds Predator and Reaper UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), has a new UAV, the three-ton Mohave. This is in development to ...

An MQ-1 Predator sits on the flight line after an aircrew flew one of the last MQ-1 local training sorties Feb. 2, 2018, at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. (Senior Airman James Thompson/U.S. Air Force) ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told the U.S. Army and Air Force in a June 13 memorandum to get over their differences and work together to develop and buy ...

Mitre Corp., Bedford, Mass., has developed Web browser software to track in near real-time the progress of Global Hawk or Predator unmanned aerial vehicles. Specifically, the program tracks ...

Video clips posted to social media by the Department of Homeland Security labeled as "DHS drone footage" appeared to confirm this week that unarmed MQ-9 Predator drones, operated by the Air and Marine ...

Lockheed Martin of Bethesda won a 32-month, $40 million contract from the Army to provide reconnaissance radar systems that work with Predator-class unmanned aerial vehicles. Under the contract, ...

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 ...