Predator RQ-1 / MQ-1 / MQ-9 Reaper UAV - Air Force Technology
2022年9月2日 · GA-ASI received a $30.5m contract to upgrade the Italian Air Force’s (IAF) MQ-9A Predator B drones from Block 1 to Block 5 standard, in September 2021. The company was contracted to deliver MQ-9 systems to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), in July 2018.
Unmanned aerial vehicles in the United States military
Their roles have expanded to include electronic attack, drone strikes, suppression or destruction of enemy air defense, network node or communications relay, combat search and rescue, and derivations of these themes. These unmanned systems range in cost from a few thousand dollars to tens of millions of dollars, with aircraft weighing from less ...
RQ-4 Global Hawk > Air Force > Fact Sheet Display
The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted aircraft with an integrated sensor suite that provides global all-weather, day or night intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability.
Drones And New Technologies Are Reinventing The U.S. Air Force …
2024年2月16日 · A U.S. Marine Corps XQ-58A Valkyrie, highly autonomous, low-cost tactical unmanned air vehicle, conducts its first test flight with a U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to...
Here are the two companies creating drone wingmen for the US Air Force
2024年4月24日 · The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday announced it selected Anduril and General Atomics to keep designing, building and testing its first batch of drone wingmen known as collaborative combat...
The Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems - United States Air Force Academy
Hosted a five-university counter-UAS demonstration at the United States Air Force Academy; Developed range-sensor and image-based navigation for GPS denied environments; DARPA Unmanned Capture-the-Flag Competition, a drone war fielding 25 autonomous Academy UAVs vs 25 USMA/USNA UAVs
Meet the Air Force’s secretive long-range drone that flies for days
2024年7月2日 · The U.S. Air Force is getting closer to realizing its vision of low-cost surveillance drones with an autonomous drone that can fly for more than three straight days.
New in 2024: Air Force plans autonomous flight tests for drone …
2023年12月30日 · WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force’s plan to create a fleet of drone wingmen to fly alongside piloted fighter jets will accelerate in 2024, as the service ramps up its experimentation with...
USAF Logs First Flight of General Atomics’ Autonomous XQ-67 Drone
2024年3月1日 · The XQ-67, a new Air Force Research Laboratory drone built by General Atomics, made its first flight Feb. 28.
AI-enabled Valkyrie drone teases future of US Air Force fleet
2024年1月18日 · WASHINGTON — The testing of sophisticated software aboard an XQ-58A Valkyrie drone will influence how the U.S. Air Force develops and deploys autonomous technology in the near future, according to a service official.