General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper

Pentagon confirms USAF MQ-9As are operating over Gaza

The Pentagon Press Secretary, Brig Gen Pat Ryder, recently confirmed that the USAF has been carrying out “unarmed UAV flights over Gaza” since October 7 in support of “hostage recovery efforts”

Kadena Air Base welcomes first of several USAF MQ-9As

On October 13, Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, greeted the first of several USAF-operated MQ-9A Reaper unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) that are scheduled to deploy to the base, which is also referred to as the ‘Keystone of the Pacific’

USMC’s VMU-3 achieves IOC with MQ-9A

The USMC’s Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 3 (VMU-3) ‘Phantoms’ celebrated reaching Initial Operational Capability with the MQ-9A Reaper medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on August 4

USAF seeks to fly unmanned aircraft from RAF Fairford from 2024

In late July, British media channels reported that the USAF had applied to the UK’s aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, to change its airspace rules in order to allow RQ-4B Global Hawk HALE UAVs and MQ-9A Reaper MALE UCAVs to fly from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire

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Lives ‘put at risk’ as Russian fighter buzzes USAF MC-12W over Syria

Pentagon officials have said lives were ‘put at risk’ when a Sukhoi Su-35S Flanker-E fighter jet from the Russian Aerospace Forces came perilously close to a USAF intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft over Syria

US approves sale of more MQ-9A Reaper drones to the Netherlands

US State Department approval has been granted for the possible Foreign Military Sale of four General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9A Block 5 Reaper UCAVs and related equipment to the Netherlands for an estimated cost of $611m

RAF Reapers support evacuation efforts in Sudan

While the Royal Air Force's (RAF's) airlift fleet has undoubtedly been the public focus of the UK's efforts to evacuate nationals from Sudan, another British military asset has been operating over the war-torn African nation, assisting evacuation efforts in a much more subtle way.

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USAF deploys AC-130Js, MQ-9As to the Philippines 

Aircraft from the 27th Special Operations Wing (SOW), based at Cannon AFB in New Mexico, will be supporting the Philippine-led Exercise Balikatan throughout April

Russian Su-27 collides with USAF Reaper drone over Black Sea

A USAF MQ-9A Reaper was destroyed after it was intercepted by two Russian Aerospace Forces (RuAF) Sukhoi Su-27 Flankers during a routine intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) patrol in international airspace over the Black Sea on March 14.

General Atomics offers Ukraine two unmanned aircraft systems for $1

Linden Blue, the CEO of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI), has offered to transfer two of the US-based remotely piloted aircraft system manufacturer’s own training aircraft to Ukraine for the symbolic price of $1