With $10 billion in development costs, the Global Hawk UAV has been an expensive proposition ... FA's Tyler Rogoway got up close with the RQ-4, as it's officially known, and pointed out that ...

The RQ-2A represents one of the U.S. Navy’s first unmanned surveillance drones to enter the fleet. Originally designed jointly by the Israeli companies AAI Corp. and Israeli Aircraft Industries ...

The idea of eliminating the human element in war has existed for decades, but it was successfully implemented with the advent of Unmanned Aircraft ... Block 10, also known as the RQ-4A, was ...

A US Marine Corps RQ-21A Blackjack was flown for the first time in Australia as part of the annual Marine Rotational Force—Darwin on August 8. Marine Unmanned Arial Vehicle Squadron 3 ...

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 ...