The US Marine Corps has equipped its MQ-9 Reaper drones with a new electronic warfare pod. The pod "can mimic things that are sent to it," Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith said. The ...

To keep its small fleet of MQ-9 Reaper drones relevant in a fight against a foe like China, the U.S. Marine Corps has added a pod designed to help shield it from enemy sensors and support friendly ...

The Air Force’s premier armed unmanned aerial vehicle would be able to fly for nearly two days straight if upgrades proposed by its manufacturer, General Atomics, were made to the Reaper MQ-9 fleet, ...

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The Navy’s MQ-9 Reaper test squadron at Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River received its first SkyTower II (STII) pod on Feb. 25, 2025, marking a key milestone ...

The service is looking to expand the mission sets of the MQ-9, adding a new Electronic Attack capability. In a press release published recently, the U.S. Air Force disclosed that the 556th Test and ...

A significant update to the U.S.-made MQ-9 Reaper drone appears to be making progress. Earlier this month, photos depicting Air Force airmen loading a GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb onto the unmanned ...

The ability to land on a surface other than a perfectly smooth, paved airstrip is a rare and valuable commodity in combat. Of course, specialty aircraft like the AV-8B Harrier II "Jump Jet" and ...

The MQ-9 Reaper has increasingly fallen behind newer drone variants—and grown more susceptible to anti-air efforts from the ground. The GA-ASI MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is the first ...

DUBAI, UAE—General Atomics aims to close a sale of anti-missile pods for its MQ-9 drones to a U.S. military customer next year, a company leader said. But the recent downing might have been prevented ...

Naval Air Systems Command has chosen a partnership between GALT Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp. to move into the second and third phases of an industry competition to build a network pod capable of ...

This is the fourth U.S. Reaper drone being shot down by the Houthi rebels since October 2023. Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Friday claimed to have shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone, circulating ...