The venerable Reaper UAV could become a mothership for a single-operator drone swarm, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command said recently. AFSOC’s Adaptive Airborne Enterprise project ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The venerable Reaper UAV could become a mothership for a single-operator drone swarm, the head of Air Force Special Operations ...

Gloria Wright / The Post-Standard THE MQ-9 REAPER, an unstaffed surveillance and attack aircraft, operates at Hancock Field. Flight crews of the 174th Fighter Wing of the New York Air National ...

The Reaper’s standard payload capacity is 3,800 pounds. For weaponry, the drone can handle up to four AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and two 500-pound GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bombs.

Earlier in April, drone pilots from the Air Force’s 26th Weapons Squadron (WPS) got into their piloting stations in the U.S. and started commanding an MQ-9 drone located all the way in Europe ...

Stephanie Cosme, 32, a civilian contractor for the Air Force, was killed in September when she accidentally walked into the rotating propeller of a Reaper drone while carrying out testing.

It's been a tough year for US military's MQ-9 Reaper workhorse combat and surveillance drone.; The aircraft has been crashed into, harassed, and shot down by US adversaries around the world.

Yet, most of the drones seen in action over in Ukraine are not officially meant for military use. The MQ-9 Reaper is. The General Atomics-made machine has been around since 2001.

The Guard is also using RC-26 intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft often used in counternarcotics operations. David Bathgate // Getty Images MQ-1 Predator drone showing off nose ...

Britain’s Royal Air Force has conducted its first Reaper drone strike in Afghanistan using operators based in the U.K. “A Reaper remotely piloted aircraft system, operated by pilots from 13 ...

Meet the Reaper, the military's newest drone 00:44. A civilian contract employee who was killed when she walked into the moving propeller of an unmanned aircraft at a Southern California airfield ...