Some of the programs targeted for reduction had been overfunded by Congress at levels above the military's original request.
China is leading the pack in a global race to match U.S. drone capabilities. The communist country has dozens of models under development, and it has shown that it has few qualms about exporting the deadly technology,
The Pentagon has released onboard video from the American MQ-9 Reaper drone that was knocked out of the sky by a Russian jet over the Black Sea.
A Russian fighter jet forced down a US Air Force drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday after damaging the propeller of the American MQ-9 Reaper drone, according to the US Air Force.
The US military admits it has flown drones over American soil on at least nine separate missions since 2011.
Defense contractor General Atomics (GA-ASI) has announced that its MQ-9A Reaper drone has surpassed 2 million flight hours. The long-endurance aircraft is expected to continue to deliver unmatched operational flexibility for the warfighter.
A Marine Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft made a hard landing Monday near Creech Air Force Base during a routine training operation, Air Force and Marine officials said Monday.
A Russian fighter jet forced down a US Air Force drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday after damaging the propeller of the American MQ-9 Reaper drone, according to officials.
The camera view is lost briefly after the apparent collision but it comes back to show what the Air Force said was damage to the propeller from the strike.
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A Russian aircraft slammed into the propeller of a U.S. surveillance drone operating over the Black Sea on Tuesday as the U.S. military condemned Russia for what it characterized as a dangerous display of unprofessional behavior, officials announced.
U.S. President Joe Biden was briefed on the incident by national security adviser Jake Sullivan
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A Russian fighter jet forced down a US Air Force drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday after damaging the propeller of the American MQ-9 Reaper drone, according to the US military.
The Russian downing of a US drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday has prompted a diplomatic spat and a race to recover some highly classified technology.
Textron decided to drop out of the assessment so it could make more investments in the AT-6 Wolverine, which the Air Force is considering buying.
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An Iranian fighter jet again played chicken Tuesday with a U.S. drone flying over international waters in the Arabian Gulf near Iran.
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The MQ-9 Reaper drone's Achille's Heel is its price tag. Now the Air Force are looking for a more affordable and more expendable replacement.
The U.S. military says a Russian warplane struck the propeller of a U.S. drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, causing American forces to bring the unmanned aircraft down in international waters
White House national security spokesman John Kirby has said the U.S. was trying to prevent the fallen drone from getting into the wrong hands.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin vowed on Wednesday that the United States will continue to fly its aircraft, even after an incident with a Russian warplane on Tuesday. “This hazardous episode is part of a pattern of aggressive, risky, and unsafe actions by Russian pilots in international airspace,” Austin said in his opening remarks to a…
The Department of Defense wasted no time launching air strikes against Islamist militants in Iraq — kicking it off Friday, along with humanitarian airdrops, only hours after President Obama gave the green light. Here's some details on what's underway.
The Reaper and the Heron TP are competing to meet the Project AIR 7003 requirement.
The new SkyGuardian is making test flights over San Diego, raising concerns about the stealthy use of large military drones for surveillance inside the U.S.
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The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (sometimes called Predator B) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations, developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) primarily for the United States Air Force (USAF). The MQ-9 and other UAVs are referred to as Remotely Piloted Vehicles/Aircraft (RPV/RPA) by the USAF to indicate their human ground controllers.
The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper is our military's premiere hunter-killer platform, sniping at targets from 50,000 feet in the sky. Except instead of bullets, it shoots Hellfire missiles. And with its most recent upgrades, the MQ-9 makes other drones look about as effective as Elmer Fudd.
The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper is our military's premiere hunter-killer platform, sniping at targets from 50,000 feet in the sky. Except instead of bullets, it shoots Hellfire missiles. And with its most recent upgrades, the MQ-9 makes other drones look about as effective as Elmer Fudd.
The latest iteration of the Predator B UAS has a longer wingspan with greater endurance and payload capacity
SAN DIEGO 28 November 2016 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA)
Following its successful penetration of the French market, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) is planning to introduce an exportable, certifiable variant of its Predator B Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPA), paving its way into more markets where the current Predator B 'Reaper' was excluded from by US export limitations. The current Predator B is currently…
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), has recently completed the longest mission of a Predator Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). The flight performed by a company built launched on February 6 and landed on February 8, 2015 during a 40-plus hour flight conducted at GA-ASI’s Castle Dome Flight Operations Facility located at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz.
General Atomics' MQ-9B SkyGuardian completed a demonstration sortie without the use of an on-site ground control station this month.
The Air Force has hired civilian defense contractors to fly MQ-9 Reaper drones to help track suspected militants and other targets in global hot spots, a previously undisclosed expansion in the privatization of once-exclusively military functions. For the first time, civilian pilots and crews now...
SAN DIEGO 8 December 2016 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA),
The MQ-9 Reaper is proving itself to be the workhorse drone of the Air Force, especially in combat zones like Afghanistan.
An Air Force MQ-9 Reaper taking off from Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan. The Reaper was designed to be a medium-to-high altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft system. It features a series of infrared sensors as well...
The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator is an American remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) built by General Atomics and used primarily by the United States Air Force (USAF) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Initially conceived in the early 1990s for aerial reconnaissance and forward observation roles, the Predator carries cameras and other sensors but has been modified and upgraded to carry and fire two AGM-114 Hellfire missiles or other munitions.
The company is hoping to bring a certifiable variant of the Predator family to market in the early 2020s.
The Air Force's premier killer drone could get a lot more dangerous, if the flying branch agrees to upgrades proposed by the robot's manufacturer. California drone-maker General Atomics has figured out ways to nearly double the flight time of the camera-, missile- and radar-equipped MQ-9 Reaper by adding fuel pods, longer wings and stronger landing gear. With all three enhancements, a Reaper's endurance jumps from 27 hours to a whopping 42 -- almost two days of continuous flying.
SAN DIEGO 25 May 2017 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) today announced that its new MQ-9B SkyGuardianTM Remotely
On Aug. 14, 2015, the U.S. Air Force disclosed plans to retire the MQ-1 Predator by the end of 2018, according to report by FlightGlobal. The Pentagon has not announced any plans to send the unmanned…
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Here is our first look at the Afterburner Decals' 48081 1/48 F-15C/D 65th Aggressors set.
Appropriators are also backing the purchase of a bunch of other aircraft across the services.
When it comes to curb appeal, few airplanes in history can match the look of the SR-71 “Blackbird.”
The U.S. Air Force will take its first delivery this month of the long-delayed KC-46 aerial refueling tanker made by Boeing Co , people familiar with the process said.
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Top Air Force leaders have said for years that it needs to buy at least 72 new fighters each year to both modernize its fighter fleet and lower its age.
The forthcoming Russian anti-aircraft system in Iran may precipitate an early Israeli strike - or promote the posture of mutually assured destruction (MAD) between Israel and Iran. Both options look bad.
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Speaking as he left his last cabinet meeting, Laurent Fabius made no mystery of what he thinks of the United States' position on Syria.
Produced in collaboration with British menswear designer Nigel Cabourn, the Survival Watch references vintage military survival equipment.
The first fuel transfer from a Boeing KC-46A tanker to a receiver aircraft was completed on Jan 24.
Suspect of bombing in Tel Aviv killed in fire exchange with security forces that had come to arrest him in Bilin.
The F-15 was the first fighter jet that could accelerate straight up.
The Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) is originally a European species of salmonid fish.
International demand for U.S. weapons systems is expected to continue growing in coming years, a senior U.S. Air Force official said on Sunday, citing strong interest in unmanned systems, munitions and fighter jets.
The jet went down during a routine aerial demonstration training flight.
Sitharaman, the country's first full-time woman defence minister, wore a G-suit and sat behind the pilot during the flight. The sortie lasted 30 minutes.
An F-16 pilot suffered minor injuries after ejecting from his aircraft during a routine landing, prompting officials at Kunsan Air Base to close the runway for nearly 24 hours, according to the Air Force.
The Pentagon has ordered a second carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, according to two US officials, and is sending Air Force fighter jets to the region as Israel prepares to expand its Gaza operations.
Sensible reductions in the defense budget must be part of the solution to getting our nation’s fiscal house in order, writes Lawrence J. Korb.
Now that John Thain has been tapped to steer CIT Group out of its post-bankruptcy wilderness, he could be remembered as one of finance's greatest turnaround artists.
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China sends 25 jets into Taiwan's defence zone on National Day
UFO dogfights, near misses and fighter pilots reporting disabled weapons – these are just a few of the incidents recorded by French investigators probing mysterious aerials encounters. Pentagon officials last...
Three alleged UFO sightings have all happened in one part of North Carolina.
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Military machines, especially aircraft, are very impressive feats of human engineering. Thanks to the wonders of the modern world (read cameras), we civilians get to enjoy them as well, in the official videos and photographs released by their operators.
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With time running out, Women Airforce Service Pilots, ace pilots and swell dames, may finally get their due.
With time running out, Women Airforce Service Pilots, ace pilots and swell dames, may finally get their due.
Russian fighter jets escorted two U.S. bombers over the Black Sea on Tuesday, according to a statement from Russia’s defense ministry.
TAT Technologies Announces That it was Selected by Embraer S.A. to Provide Heat Exchangers With a
Contrary what we’re hearing from the Biden administration, the solution to our labor market problems is not massive government spending designed to create jobs.
The Pentagon has released a book of instructions on the “law of war,” detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy. The manual also states that journalists can be labeled “unprivileged belligerents,” an obscure term that replaced “enemy combatant.” The 1,176-page “Department of Defense Law of War Manual” explains that shooting, exploding, bombing, stabbing, or cutting the enemy are acceptable ways of getting the job done, but the use of poison or asphyxiating gases is not allow
Linemen at Pride Flight Services in Alexandria, La., need to know their stuff.
A midair collision can happen so fast and unexpectedly, you could quite literally never know what hit you. Here’s how Bill Cox got lucky.
Thousands of employees at six commercial U.S. carriers played roles in the massive evacuation to get Americans and allies out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan before the Biden administration's deadline.
The U.S. Army faces a dilemma over a future replacement for its fleet of A/MH-6 Little Bird helicopters.
China's air force carried out another round of long-range drills on Monday, flying into the Sea of Japan and prompting South Korean and Japanese jets to scramble, and again around self-ruled Taiwan amid growing tension over China's assertiveness.
U.S. military aircraft, heavy equipment and air traffic controllers will start arriving in Nepal from Saturday as part of a U.S. relief operation following the devastating earthquake, a senior U.S. officer said.
Oct. 14—In cities across the U.S., vintage military aircraft rest quietly in museums, where school children and tourists admire them, take their pictures and leave them behind closed doors at the end of each day. This weekend aviation history blasts out of the museum and into the skies as Texas Raiders, a fully restored B-17 Flying Fortress, thunders into Corsicana on her four giant engines. ...
The 349-member Riksdag assembly approved the largest hike in 70 years, bringing the annual defense budget by 2025 to $11 billion.
Fighters jets were scrambled when the Chinese military planes were detected over disputed waters.
A vehicle accident that killed one cadet from the US Military Academy and injured 21 others Thursday is refocusing attention on a startling statistic -- more American service members are dying during training exercises than in combat operations.
Can the Pentagon replace the E-4B, C-32A and E-6B with a single platform?
U.S. airlifts out 160 Afghan Air Force pilots, trapped for months in Tajikistan
A superfast unmanned military plane traveled at 20 times the speed of sound and managed to control itself for three minutes before crashing into the Pacific Ocean in a recent test, military officials said.
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