RQ-1 Predator Image Gallery
The Predator MAE UAV was developed as an ACTD from January 1994 to June 1996.
Because the Predator is small, white, and almost invisible in the sky, people don't realize they're being watched. Its 80-horsepower four-stroke Rotax 912 engine is virtually silent at altitude but as annoying as a chainsaw on the ground.
The aircraft can be picked up on radar, but most search radar systems filter out low-speed targets so that they don't pick out birds or objects that don't pose threats.
RQ-1 Predator Images:
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The "Reaper" has been chosen as the name for the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle. U.S. Air Force photo
Source: US Air Force
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- Air Force, Army leaders discuss new concept of operations
- Raptor raises the stakes in Iraq
- MQ-9 Reaper drops first GPS-guided weapon
- U.S., British Reaper operations combined in Afghanistan
- Air Force's only UAV wing marks one year in the fight
- Predator combat air patrols double in 1 year
- Air Force Predators take out insurgents and weapons
- Predators of the mountains
- Northrop to develop new SIGINT capability for Reaper, Predator UAVs
- General Atomics awarded $79M for Predator Hellfire kits; 4 new Reapers
- RAF Activates UAV Squadron at Creech AFB
- UK to order 10 more MQ-9 Reaper UAVs
- GA-ASI Awarded $83M For Predator/Reaper Support
- Predator crashes in Iraq
- Northrop Awarded $54.9M for MQ-1 sensors
- Creech welcomes newest UAV detachment to the war on terrorism
- RAF Reaper takes to the air in Afghanistan
- Reaper drops first precision-guided bomb, protects forces
- New Reaper UAV undergoes tests in SWA
- General Atomics Awarded $60M for Predator/Reaper Support Equipment
