The exercise focused on maritime operations to reflect the growing need for MQ-9 capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region, said the Air Force. The recent Exercise Reaper Smoke, held late in April at ...

The MQ-9 has been widely used for counterterrorism operations, close air support, and border surveillance missions. The General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper is a remotely piloted aircraft ...

The technological evolutions of the MQ-9 drone have ushered a new era of warfare in which killing a target is easier than ever before—with uneasy moral and legal implications. The General Atomics MQ-9 ...

Holloman AFB is home to the 49th Wing, the Air Force’s largest F-16 and MQ-9 FTU (Formal Training Unit). Held for three weeks beginning Mar. 13, 2025, the unique exercise has been increasingly ...

The MQ-9 Reaper has increasingly fallen behind newer drone variants—and grown more susceptible to anti-air efforts from the ground. The GA-ASI MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is the first ...

The US Air Force (USAF) is seeking to expand the battlefield capabilities of its primary uncrewed combat aircraft, recently demonstrating the ability to operate from remote and austere bases. During ...

A General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drone recently landed at the Springfield-Beckley Air National Guard Base for training and an exercise called “Advanced Wrath.” Trainees are hoping to get the drone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed Monday that they shot down another American-made MQ-9 Reaper drone, ...

The U.S. Coast Guard will use about $266 million of the funds it received in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to procure the service’s own MQ-9 Alpha long-range unmanned aerial systems. (Senior Airman ...

The Department of War said Tuesday the International Remotely Piloted Aircraft IDIQ Solution, or IRIS, is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that ...