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The Crazy V-Bat Vertical Takeoff And Landing Drone Could Be A Game Changer
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 27, 2019
Detailed Image Comes To Light Of Secretive Drone Test Base Near Area 51
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 24, 2019
Northrop Grumman’s Optionally Manned Firebird Aircraft Has Its First Official Customers
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 17, 2019
Navy’s Stealth Destroyers Now Part Of Experimental Squadron Alongside Drone Ships
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 16, 2019
U.S. Air Force Is Planning Something Big in the Nevada Desert
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 1, 2019
The Air Force May Have Retired The Predator, But It was the Army That Blazed Its Trail
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
Glimpse Of The Future?: MC-130 Sets Up Forward Refueling Point For MQ-9 Reaper Drone
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
Massive US Counterstrike Against Assad’s Forces Signals New Stage Of Syrian Civil War
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
Navy’s Sea Hunter Drone Ship Is Getting A New Owner, New Abilities, and a Sister
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
The USAF Expands MQ-9 Reaper Drone Force in Afghanistan to Its Largest Size Ever
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
The US Navy May End Up Flying the Air Force’s Unwanted MQ-1 Predator Drones
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
China Is Hard At Work Developing Swarms Of Small Drones With Big Military Applications
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
US Navy Wants to Hire Contractors to Fly Their Own MQ-9 Reaper Drones in Afghanistan
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
BAE Systems Wants Its MAGMA Drone to Maneuver Using Only Supersonic Blasts of Air
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
The Navy Says “Fly Before Buy” When It Comes To Its New MQ-25 Drone Tanker
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
No One Seems Sure What’s Been Holding up Drone Strikes in Niger
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
Northrop Grumman Bails on Navy’s Watered-Down Tanker Drone Competition
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
General Atomics Is the First to Show Off Its MQ-25 Drone Tanker Design
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
GM Thinks Its Stealthy, Optionally-Manned Truck Platform Could Change the US Army
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
NOAA Is Running Out of Money for its Hurricane Hunting Planes and Drones
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
Houthi Rebels Shoot Down U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper Over Yemen
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
The US Navy Has Created Its First Ever Underwater Drone Squadron
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
New US Army Manual Shows It’s Worried About Russia’s Hybrid Warfare Tactics
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
US Navy Doubles Down On Range Requirements For Its MQ-25 Tanker Drone
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
U.S. Military Wants Tech Companies To Battle Each Other in the ‘ThunderDrone’
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
Back To Back U.S. Drones Crashes in Turkey as Tensions Simmer Between the Two Countries
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
General Atomics Gives First Clues About its MQ-25 Drone Tanker Design
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
Northrop Grumman MQ-25 Drone Tanker Testbed Emerges At Plant 42 In California
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
US Could Kick Off Air Strikes Against ISIS in The Philippines Next Week
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
The US Navy May Have Watered Down Its MQ-25 Drone Even More
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
No Military Units Have Free Time to Grab that Downed Global Hawk Off Mt. Whitney
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
The USAF Tested an Advanced, Modular Sensor Pod on a Vintage Airliner
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
Navy Reveals Which Carriers Will First Field Their Dumbed-Down MQ-25 Drone
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
U.S. Drones May Have Been Gunning For Top Somali Terrorists in New Strike
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
F-15E Shot Down “Predator-Sized” Drone That Attacked Coalition Forces In Syria
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
This U.S. Army Manual Has New Official Details About the RQ-170 Sentinel Drone
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
USAF Reaper Drones Can Finally Drop GPS Guided Joint Direct Attack Munitions
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
The U.S. Army’s Laser-Armed Stryker Has Blasted Dozens of Drones
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
This Throw-Away Drone Could Rush Supplies to Marines in Need
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
America Is Still Training Ukrainian Troops to Fly a Drone They Hate
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
This Crazy Tandem Rotor Drone May One Day Rescue U.S. Army Casualties
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
U.S. Air Force Buying Special Drone-Snagging Shotgun Shells
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
Here’s Everything We Know About The U.S. Strikes On Iran That Never Came
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 21, 2019
No Easy Decisions For U.S. Over How To React To Iran Shooting Down Navy Drone
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 20, 2019
Air Force To Test Target Drone Turned Low-Cost Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 18, 2019
Iran Tried To Shoot Down U.S. Reaper Drone Near Tankers Hours Before Attacks: Report
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 14, 2019
Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Are Now Striking Saudi Arabia With Cruise Missiles (Updated)
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 13, 2019
Russia’s ‘Hunter’ Flying Wing Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle Is A Big Beast
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 21, 2019
Shot Down? The USAF Now Wants To Air-Drop An Air Taxi To Fly You Out To Safety
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 14, 2019
Air Force Considering Making Its Next Tanker A Drone With A Podded Refueling Boom
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 3, 2019
Boeing’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Trucked To Air Base Near St. Louis For Flight Testing
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 29, 2019