Air Force shifts strategy to prioritize affordable drones over expensive MQ-9 Reapers ...

The Pentagon is exploring cheap, long-range drone options that may eventually replace the MQ-9 Reaper. The search comes after dozens of MQ-9s were swatted out of the sky during the Iran war, according ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An MQ-9 Reaper takes part in the Freedom Flag 2024 exercise at Kunsan Air Base on Oct. 23, 2024. It's not stealthy, it's getting ...

Officials say the US has lost 11 MQ-9 Reaper drones in Iran, highlighting the risks faced by surveillance drones operating ...

NexFuture (July 9, 2026) — The skies over the Middle East are witnessing a level of sustained, high-stakes aerial combat unseen by American forces in decades, sharply underscored by a U.S. official’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An MQ-9 Reaper flies a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range on July 15, 2019. (Airman 1st Class William Rio ...

U.S. airstrikes against Iran have relied heavily on a familiar but often overlooked aircraft: the MQ-9 Reaper drone. When the U.S. launched a broader wave of attacks on Iranian military targets ...

An MQ-9 Reaper drone flies a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range in 2019. Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed Monday they shot down another MQ-9 drone over the country. (Airman 1st ...

A US Air Force (USAF) exercise for operators of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper has featured a Chinese air base. The Reaper Smoke competition, hosted at Hurlburt Field, Florida ...

The US Department of Defence has not published a comprehensive assessment of combat losses so far. At least 42 United States military aircraft, including fighter jets and drones, have been lost or ...

Iran says its air defenses have shot down two U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones over Isfahan and Bushehr during the latest escalation between Tehran and Washington. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ...