The RQ-1 Predator entered service in 1994 while still being tested, according to Air Force officials. It was first used in Bosnia as a reconnaissance drone.

On Feb. 16, 2001, a RQ-1 Predator with an inert AGM-114C laser-guided Hellfire missile hanging off of its wing orbited high over a bombing range near Indian Springs Air Force Station located north ...

The RQ-1 proved adaptable to carrying an AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface antitank missile under each wing. Accepted in 2002 ...

The MQ-1B Predator is an armed, multi-mission, ... In April 1996, the secretary of defense selected the U.S. Air Force as the operating service for the RQ-1 Predator system.

The curious-looking RQ-1 Predator spy plane is part of a highly sophisticated, multi-million dollar intelligence gathering and targeting system. The fully deployed system consists of four air vehicles ...

The RQ-1 Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle system. It is a Joint Forces Air Component Commander-owned theater asset for reconnaissance, surveillance and target ...

THE RQ-1 PREDATOR The Predator is a slow, propeller-driven plane, but it is making military history as the first remote-controlled aircraft to attack an enemy. The Predator has had high-tech ...

In 2002, what was called the RQ-1 was redesignated MQ-1 after the Predator was given an armed reconnaissance role. This was a new means of delivering ordnance on targets, ...

A year later it entered service with the CIA and the U.S. Air Force as the RQ-1 (recon drone) Predator. Coinciding with the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, ...

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 ...