Powered by a Rotax engine and driven by a propeller ... Following 2001, the RQ-1 Predator became the primary unmanned aircraft used for offensive operations by the USAF and the CIA in Afghanistan ...

Click on the UAV icons below to learn more about the Predator and some of its UAV ancestors. — Lexi Krock Years before the first manned airplane flight on December 17, 1903, primitive UAV ...