The Predator is a 27-foot-long drone or, in military lingo, a UAV, unmanned aerial vehicle. The pilots fly by remote control with the aid of a satellite, half a dozen computer screens and a joystick.

DHS posted intense drone footage with a fierce caption on X, seemingly confirming predator drones are flying over L.A.

Video clips posted to social media by the Department of Homeland Security labeled as “DHS drone footage” appeared to confirm ...

This is where General Atomics Aeronautical Systems makes the Predator and Reaper drones, robotic planes that can thread the rugged mountains of Pakistan, capture video images of terrorist hideouts ...

The Predator drone was ugly, slow and unreliable. Despite those drawbacks, the aircraft quickly exceeded expectations; within a decade, it had transformed the very nature of warfare and spawned a ...

An unmanned military Predator drone, similar to those that have seen action in Afghanistan, has been called in to battle against a raging California wildfire that has scorched an area almost as ...

Drone Compadres. Together, the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper medium-altitude unmanned aircraft represent the "largest major weapons system the Air Force ... chief of the Commander's Action Group, ...

WASHINGTON – A U.S. Air Force Predator drone was lost Tuesday over Syria, according to the Pentagon, and it's unclear whether it crashed by accident or was shot down. The military relies on the ...

Earlier this month, General Atomics announced that its latest drone in the Predator family would be named Mojave. Part of a lineage that includes the Reaper and Gray Eagle, the Mojave is billed as ...

The Pentagon disclosed today that an unarmed U.S. military Predator surveillance drone was fired at by Iranian military jets last week in international airspace over the waters of the Persian Gulf.

To some, it was an act of mercy that proved the ultimate worth of the Predator, the first drone armed to kill. What had begun as a rescue operation on March 4, 2002, turned dire for a team of Army … ...

Drone aircraft—or, as the Air Force prefers, unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs—were not unprecedented. In World War II, radio-controlled B-24s were sent on bombing missions over Germany.