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  2. General Atomics MQ-1 Predator - Wikipedia

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    General Atomics completed the final RQ-1 ordered by Italy by October 2015, marking the end of Predator A production after two decades. The last Predator for the USAF was completed in 2011; later Predator aircraft were built on the Predator XP assembly line. [29] The United States Air Force announced plans to retire the MQ-1 on 9 March 2018. [30]

  3. General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper - Wikipedia

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    The General Atomics "Predator B-001", a proof-of-concept aircraft, first flew on 2 February 2001. Abraham Karem is the designer of the Predator. [8] The B-001 was powered by an AlliedSignal Garrett TPE331-10T turboprop engine with 950 shaft horsepower (710 kW). It had an airframe that was based on the standard Predator airframe, except with an ...

  4. List of United States Air Force reconnaissance aircraft

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    O-57 Grasshopper at the National Museum of the United States Air Force A de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI (F-8) of the 654th BS, Eighth Air Force at RAF Watton, 1944 North American B-25D (F-10) Mitchell photographic reconnaissance and mapping aircraft North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang (F-6C) Serial No 42-103368 of the 15th TRS at St. Dizler Airfield, France, Autumn 1944.

  5. Inside Vietnam’s Forgotten Drone War - AOL

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    CPA Media Pte Ltd / AlamyOn Oct. 7, 2001, a U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator drone flying over Afghanistan fired a missile at a building CIA analysts suspected of housing Taliban leader Mullah Omar.

  6. Unmanned aerial vehicles in the United States military

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    A 2011 study by the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine indicated that nearly 50% of spy UAV operators suffer from high stress. [33] The president of a civilian UAV operators' union, the Association of Unmanned Operation (AUO), cited long working hours and decreasing wages as U.S. involvement in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was reduced and ...

  7. General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft is an Avenger-based wing-body-tail design with a standard D-704 buddy tank refueling system that has an electro-optical ball like the Predator and Reaper, landing gear that pulls into the fuselage, and a system for maneuvering around the flight deck using gestures from the flight crew.

  8. Is Lockheed Martin's Hypersonic Spy Plane a Warfare ... - AOL

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    SR-72. Photo: Lockheed Martin. Imagine a plane that's capable of traveling at Mach 6 and can fire hypersonic missiles at any target in the world, in less than an hour. According to Lockheed Martin ...

  9. US Navy trying to recover spy plane that ended up in Hawaii bay

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    P-8 aircraft are also flown by the Australian, New Zealand, British, Norwegian and Indian militaries, according to Boeing. The cause of the crash remains unclear and an investigation is underway.