In April 1996, the secretary of defense selected the U.S. Air Force as the operating service for the RQ-1 Predator system. The "R" is the Department of Defense designation for reconnaissance aircraft.

The United States military has been operating drones for decades, but there's one Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) that most people know: the MQ-1 Predator, which is one of the best military drones ...

The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built by General Atomics and used primarily by the United States Air Force (USAF) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Airmen have created the Air Force's first MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) Electronic Combat Officers (ECO) course. As MQ-1/9 aircraft require satellite signals to ...

USAF leaders may yet find a way to save NGAD ... which first flew in 1972 and was the apex predator of the skies in its day. It probably has a lot of the same attributes as the NGAD, minus ...

But the Predator and the dozen other operational UAVs in the U.S. military arsenal owe their existence to the past. They are only the most recent and advanced installments in a century-old history ...

United States Air Force (USAF), showed black and white film footage of the strike, carried out by the Predator B UAV which fired a Hellfire missile at the dish. The film also showed people rushing ...

New Delhi: India on Tuesday inked a mega deal with the US to procure 31 Predator long-endurance drones from American defence major General Atomics under the foreign military sales route at a cost ...

The Cabinet Committee on Security approved the acquisition of 31 Predator drones of which 15 will go to the Indian Navy, while the rest will be divided equally between the Air Force and the Army.

India on Tuesday signed a $4 billion deal with the US to purchase 31 Predator long-endurance drones for the Indian defence forces, boosting the military's combat prowess along the contested ...