America’s fleet of surveillance and attack drones are far older than most people realize. While the unmanned platforms have certainly come into the spotlight since the start of the War on Terror, they ...

One of the hardest problems in training jet fighter pilots is providing suitable targets for air-to-air gunnery practice. Towed sleeve targets are poor opposition. They are too slow to simulate enemy ...

The Air Force has announced a plan to pit a fighter drone against a human pilot next year, reviving the longstanding argument about whether drones can ever match Top Guns and how good the Air Force’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A newly refurbished Ryan BQM-34F Firebee drone now hangs from the ceiling of a hangar at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, ...

The Ryan Firebee is widely considered the first true UAV developed by the US military, however, it was far from their first attempt. Take Operation Aphrodite, which loaded B-17s with high explosives ...

A Lockheed DC-130 drone control aircraft carrying two BQM-34S Firebee target drones under its wing, circa 1975. They Navy does not like drones. That's why they keep terminating them. Nobody wants to ...

Conforming with requirements of the Navy missile it was to power, design of the Fairchild J44 turbojet began in 1947. The J44 (commercial designation FT-101 E) made its first flight in 1950 powering ...

Communist China held an official ceremony celebrating a “major victory” in the shooting down of “a pilotless, high-altitude reconnaissance military plane of U.S. imperialism” over Central-South China.

A newly refurbished Ryan BQM-34F Firebee drone now hangs from the ceiling of a hangar at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, marking the latest addition to an impressive collection of historic ...