The CIA Is Not Going To Give Up It`s Drones

Pictured: An armed MQ-9 Reaper (Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson/US Air Force) Targeted Killing: CIA's fleet of 80+ UAVs unlikely to be transfe...

The U.S. Marine Drone Fleet Is Expanding

The RQ-7B Shadow is an unmanned aerial vehicle that was operated by VMU-3 in southwestern Afghanistan. Each Shadow carries a camera, which s...

America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases

A pilot in a remote site at Kandahar Air Field uses a camera pod to remotely steer a Reaper aircraft back into base after a mission. Rick Lo...

What Was On Display At A Drone Trade Show

Global Hawk Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk is the highest-flying of the military’s current fleet of UAVs. With its 116-foot wingspan, it can...

Drones For The U.S. Navy

Northrop Begins Production of MQ-4 for U.S. Navy -- Defense News Northrop Grumman has begun work on the very first MQ-4 Broad Area Maritime ...

How To Regulate And Control The Spread Of Drone Technology

The Global Hawk, an unmanned surveillance aircraft, taxis at an air force base near Adelaide in this April 24, 2001 file photo. Credit: Reut...

For Freshly Graduated UAV Pilots, A New Era Begets A New Set of Wings

UAS-RPA Wings USAF From Popular Science: This week, we heard 24 cadets at the Air Force Academy received the first wings awarded in the ins...

The Present And Future Of Unmanned Drone Aircraft: An Illustrated Field Guide

The Avenger: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems From Popular Science: Inside the wild kingdom of the world’s newest and most spectacular ...