Secrecy has shrouded Phoenix Ghost drones since the U.S. first rushed them to Ukraine. Now their little-known maker, Aevex, is stepping into the light with plans to become a major supplier of aerial ...

The MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV became the iconic weapon of that period of counter-insurgency warfare waged by the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. This ...

An MQ-1 Predator sits on the flight line after an ... Military use of remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, dates back to World War I experiments with practice targets, while guided aerial weapons ...

The first operational reconnaissance drone, the Predator, went on to assume a more ... and he built his first UAV for the Israeli Air Force during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Immigrating to the ...

The Predator is part of a remotely piloted aircraft system. A fully operational system consists of four sensor/weapon-equipped aircraft, ground control station, Predator Primary Satellite Link ...

Initially, Iran and Hezbollah used drones for surveillance. When they sought to put munitions on the UAVs, just as the US put ...

The MQ-1 Predator drone, operational from 1995 until ... Upcoming plans include deploying these drones to the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) in Germany to facilitate further training ...

Thomas Michael McDonnell, “Sow What you Reap? Using Predator and Reaper Drones to Carry Out Assissinations or Targeted Killings of Suspected Islamic Terrorists,” George Washington International Law ...

They are only the most recent and advanced installments in a century-old history of unmanned warfare and surveillance from the skies. Click on the UAV icons below to learn more about the Predator ...

The US has used armed drones extensively in the Middle East, as part of its campaigns against both al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State (IS). Weapons such as Predator and Reaper drones have been ...