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 ...

The United States has tested a new way to expand its military drone operations in the western Pacific, as an MQ-9 Reaper launched and landed without a runway at Kadena Air Base in Japan, a front-line ...

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 ...

A US Air Force (USAF) exercise for operators of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper has featured a Chinese air base. The Reaper Smoke competition, hosted at Hurlburt Field, Florida ...

Paved runways and dedicated facilities are a luxury that the United States Air Force knows it can’t count on in wartime. The service has explored how the fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35 ...

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

The 431st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron was activated for the first time since WW2 at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, to operate MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. 82 years after it was ...

The MQ-9s of USSOCOM and AFSOC will get cyber anomaly detection and predictive maintenance capabilities, as well as a podded Airborne Battlespace Awareness and Defense capability. General Atomics ...

The MQ-9 has a modular belly full of sensors and weapons. Datalinks and satellite relays connect the fuselage to an operator located thousands of miles away, who uses the MQ-9’s suite of ...

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 ...

A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper comes in for a landing at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, on March 16, 2023. The drone has found customers in Europe, with the Netherlands recently topping up a previous ...