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Unmanned aerial vehiclesCreated by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 2022
An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air
The term drone has been used from the early days of aviation to name remotely-flown target aircraft used for practice firing a battleship's guns, such as the 1920s Fairey Queen and 1930s de Havilland Queen Bee.

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is defined as a "powered, aerial vehicle that does not carry a human operator, uses aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift, can fly autonomously or be piloted remotely. UAV is a term that is commonly applied to military use cases. Missiles with warheads are not considered UAVs because the vehicle itself is a munition.

The term unmanned aircraft system (UAS) was adopted by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

An unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance and carries aircraft ordnance such as missiles, machine guns, and bombs.
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An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft is secured aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft is se...

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Dec. 11, 2012) An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft is secured aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman by ... More

2d MARDIV Intelligence Officer Conducts Intelligence Briefing

2d MARDIV Intelligence Officer Conducts Intelligence Briefing

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. PJ Croom, a Marine Air Ground Task Force intelligence officer, and Cpl. Courtney Garza, an intelligence specialist, both with Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division (2d MARDIV), ... More

An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line as the sun sets

An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line as the sun sets

An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line as the sun sets at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., Nov. 20, 2019. The Reaper provides dominant, persistent attack and reconnaissance 24/7/365. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman... More

Sgt. Nicholas Hammond, an aviation operations sergeant

Sgt. Nicholas Hammond, an aviation operations sergeant

Sgt. Nicholas Hammond, an aviation operations sergeant with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-137th Aviation Regiment, assembles the RQ-11B Raven during training operations this spring at Camp Sherman Jo... More

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Austin Mitchell, an

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Austin Mitchell, an

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Austin Mitchell, an intelligence specialist with 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division holds a RQ-20 Puma unmanned aircraft system surveillance and reconnaissance... More

An MQ-9 Reaper belonging to the 432nd Wing/432nd Air

An MQ-9 Reaper belonging to the 432nd Wing/432nd Air

An MQ-9 Reaper belonging to the 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing sits on the runway at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Oct. 16, 2020. The MQ-9 Reaper is an armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endu... More

U.S. Marine Sgt. Kevin Ware launches a Small Unmanned

U.S. Marine Sgt. Kevin Ware launches a Small Unmanned

U.S. Marine Sgt. Kevin Ware launches a Small Unmanned Aircraft System, as part of exercise Joint Assault Signals Company Black, Waiouru Military Camp, New Zealand, Sept. 12, 2018. The Small Unmanned Aircraft Sy... More

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Lapthe C. Flora, commanding general,

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Lapthe C. Flora, commanding general,

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Lapthe C. Flora, commanding general, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), operates a Drone Defender V2 during his visit to Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti, Oct. 31, 2020. The Dr... More

Children touch the Multi-Spectral Targeting System

Children touch the Multi-Spectral Targeting System

Children touch the Multi-Spectral Targeting System of an MQ-9 Reaper at the Thunder Over Dover Open House Aug. 25, 2017, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Adults, and Children alike surrounded and interacted with ... More

U.S. Marines with the Small Unmanned Aircraft System

U.S. Marines with the Small Unmanned Aircraft System

U.S. Marines with the Small Unmanned Aircraft System Operator (SUAS-O) Course conduct a precheck on a RQ-11B Raven aircraft prior to flying a training mission over Makua Valley Military Reservation, Feb. 6, 201... More

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Tylor Davis, an information

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Tylor Davis, an information

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Tylor Davis, an information security technician, assigned to 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company (1st ANGLICO), I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, prepares to launch a RQ-... More

A Cessna 206 Stationair mission crew with the Civil

A Cessna 206 Stationair mission crew with the Civil

A Cessna 206 Stationair mission crew with the Civil Air Patrol’s Michigan Wing escorts a MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group, Arizona Air National Guard, over Alpena, Mich., during a training sortie ... More

An unmanned aerial system hovers during a test flight

An unmanned aerial system hovers during a test flight

An unmanned aerial system hovers during a test flight July 9, 2020, at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas. The flight tested the capability for environmental scanning towards studying habitats of the rar... More

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Aug. 6, 2015) A MQ-5B

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Aug. 6, 2015) A MQ-5B

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Aug. 6, 2015) A MQ-5B Hunter stands ready in a Task Force Copperhead Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detachment hangar at Kandahar Airfield. The MQ-5B is a multi-mission UAV equ... More

An USAF, RQ-4A Global Hawk Unmanned Arial Vehicle sits parked on the flight line at Langley AFB, VA. A USAF E-3C Airborne Early Warning Control System (AWACS) aircraft and a USAF E-8A Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (J-STARS) aircraft are parked (left-to-right) in the background as ground crews and security personnel attend the aircraft

An USAF, RQ-4A Global Hawk Unmanned Arial Vehicle sits parked on the f...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Langley Air Force Base State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Lynnita Cotton, USAF Release Sta... More

The remotely-piloted Altair unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) took to the air on its first checkout flight on June 9, 2003 at El Mirage, California. EC03-0154-3

The remotely-piloted Altair unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) took to the ...

The remotely-piloted Altair unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) took to the air on its first checkout flight on June 9, 2003 at El Mirage, California.

A full scale Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) X-45C on display at the 2005 Naval Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Air Demo held at the Webster Field Annex of Naval Air Station Patuxent River.

A full scale Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) X-45C on displ...

St. Inigoes, Md. (Jun. 27, 2005) A full scale Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) X-45C on display at the 2005 Naval Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Air Demo held at the Webster Field Annex of Naval Air Station ... More

U.S. Army Spc. Steven Bew, a unmanned aircraft systems

U.S. Army Spc. Steven Bew, a unmanned aircraft systems

U.S. Army Spc. Steven Bew, a unmanned aircraft systems repairer with 6th Attack Recon Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, monitors his radio for guidance while the tactical automatic landing... More

AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq –Spc. William Lindmeier, an

AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq –Spc. William Lindmeier, an

AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq –Spc. William Lindmeier, an unmanned aircraft system repairer from Company 10, 10th Aviation Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, performs maintenance on a MQ-1C Gray Eagle at Al Asad Air Ba... More

A U.S. Marine Corps Instant Eye drone system hovers

A U.S. Marine Corps Instant Eye drone system hovers

A U.S. Marine Corps Instant Eye drone system hovers during Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) training on Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 5, 2019. The training provided Marines across the 2nd Marine Division an opp... More

U.S. Army Pfc. Antonio Arriola, left, and Staff Sgt.

U.S. Army Pfc. Antonio Arriola, left, and Staff Sgt.

U.S. Army Pfc. Antonio Arriola, left, and Staff Sgt. Matt Hedges, Soldiers with the New Jersey National Guard’s Det. 1, D Co., 104th Brigade Engineer Battalion “Skydevils” perform ops checks on a RQ-7B Shadow u... More

An unmanned aerial vehicle – an RQ-7B Shadow – comes

An unmanned aerial vehicle – an RQ-7B Shadow – comes

An unmanned aerial vehicle – an RQ-7B Shadow – comes to a halt after touching down on a landing strip managed by U.S. Army soldiers with the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Platoon, Company B, 4-3 Brigade Special Tro... More

A MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system from the

A MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system from the

A MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system from the "Magicians" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35, the Navy’s first composite expeditionary helicopter squadron, lifts off the flight deck of the l... More

161009-N-PO203-306 LOCHALSH, United Kingdom (Oct. 9,

161009-N-PO203-306 LOCHALSH, United Kingdom (Oct. 9,

161009-N-PO203-306 LOCHALSH, United Kingdom (Oct. 9, 2016) A rotary wing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Pacific, lifts off as part of the first-ever Unmanned Warrior... More

A small unmanned aerial system that is part of the

A small unmanned aerial system that is part of the

A small unmanned aerial system that is part of the counter-UAS program under the 379th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron sits on concrete before an exercise in partnership with the explosive ordnance dispo... More

A RQ-7B Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System

A RQ-7B Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System

A RQ-7B Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System from Company A, 2-3 Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, takes off as it is launched at Evans Air Field, Fort Stew... More

Tech. Sgt. Christopher, 867th Attack Squadron MQ-9

Tech. Sgt. Christopher, 867th Attack Squadron MQ-9

Tech. Sgt. Christopher, 867th Attack Squadron MQ-9 Reaper sensor operator, shares a laugh with spectators of the Wings Over Solano air show May 6, 2017, at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. Interacting with spectat... More

A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 556th

A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 556th

A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron armed with an AIM-9X Block 2 missile sits on the ramp at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Sept. 3, 2020. During the weapon test, air... More

160519-N-GP524-056 (27147688255)

160519-N-GP524-056 (27147688255)

160519-N-GP524-056 ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 19, 2016) – Quartermaster 3rd Class Greg Flippen launches a RQ-20A Puma AE (All Environment) unmanned aircraft system from the flight deck of the guided-missile destroyer... More

The Reaper returns, Afghanistan

The Reaper returns, Afghanistan

An Air Force MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial attack vehicle prepares to land after a mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The Reaper has the ability to carry both precision-guided bombs and missiles. (... More

A Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle launches from

A Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle launches from

A Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle launches from the amphibious dock landing ship USS Comstock. Scan Eagle is a runway independent, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system designed to provide multiple ... More

Contractors prepare to hoist the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator to the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).

Contractors prepare to hoist the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCA...

NORFOLK (Nov. 26, 2012) Contractors prepare to hoist the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator to the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The air vehicle arrived by ... More

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft is transported  on an aircraft elevator aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft is tr...

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Dec. 11, 2012) An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft is transported on an aircraft elevator aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). (U.S. Navy photo cou... More

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator lands

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator lands

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator lands at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., after completing the first launch of an unmanned aerial vehicle from an aircraft carrier. (U.S. Navy photo by Ke... More

Two Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles are seen on the tarmac at a Northrop Grumman test facility in Palmdale, Calif.

Two Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles are seen on...

PALMDALE, Calif. (May. 21, 2013) Two Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles are seen on the tarmac at a Northrop Grumman test facility in Palmdale, Calif. Triton is undergoing flight testing as ... More

The Navy's unmanned X-47B lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

The Navy's unmanned X-47B lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodo...

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Aug. 17, 2014) The Navy's unmanned X-47B lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The aircraft completed a series of tests demonstrating its ability to operate safely a... More

The Navy's unmanned X-47B prepares to launch from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

The Navy's unmanned X-47B prepares to launch from the aircraft carrier...

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Aug. 17, 2014) The Navy's unmanned X-47B prepares to launch from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The aircraft completed a series of tests demonstrating its ability to opera... More

Air Force Maj. Scott Gregg, Black Dart project officer,

Air Force Maj. Scott Gregg, Black Dart project officer,

Air Force Maj. Scott Gregg, Black Dart project officer, speaks to the media in front of an MQ-9 unmanned aircraft system, at Naval Base Ventura County and Sea Range, Point Mugu, Calif., July 31, 2015. The drone... More

Lance Cpl. Cody Barss explains how he landed a helicopter

Lance Cpl. Cody Barss explains how he landed a helicopter

Lance Cpl. Cody Barss explains how he landed a helicopter utilizing an Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System prototype to Rear Adm. Matt Klunder, chief of naval research, left, and Col. Andrew MacMannis, deput... More

A U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle with B company, 229th

A U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle with B company, 229th

A U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle with B company, 229th Aviation Regiment known as "Flying Tigers" prepares for takeoff at the Air Combat Element landing strip, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twenty... More

Spc. Jose Ledezma, an infantryman with Headquarters,

Spc. Jose Ledezma, an infantryman with Headquarters,

Spc. Jose Ledezma, an infantryman with Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 1st battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, assembles an S2AS Puma All Environment U... More

Sailors move an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System

Sailors move an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System

Sailors move an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator onto an aircraft elevator aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is scheduled to be the first aircraft carrier ... More

A U.S. Marine Corps Cargo Resupply Unmanned Aircraft

A U.S. Marine Corps Cargo Resupply Unmanned Aircraft

A U.S. Marine Corps Cargo Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System (CRUAS) with Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron (VMU) 2, Marine Air Control Group 28, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), lands at Camp Bastion, ... More

Airman 1st Class Johnathan, 386th Expeditionary Aircraft

Airman 1st Class Johnathan, 386th Expeditionary Aircraft

Airman 1st Class Johnathan, 386th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, and Airman 1st Class Brandon, 386th EAMXS avionics specialist, conduct flight control checks while communicating with a ... More

The MQ-9 Reaper model is displayed at the Wings Over

The MQ-9 Reaper model is displayed at the Wings Over

The MQ-9 Reaper model is displayed at the Wings Over Solano air show May 5, 2017 at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. Spectators were able to see an actual Reaper and interact with sensor operators, pilots and inte... More

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Devonte Torres, 354th

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Devonte Torres, 354th

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Devonte Torres, 354th Civil Engineer Squadron operations manager, operates a Small Unmanned Aircraft System during a newly adopted Rapid Airfield Damage Assessment System trainin... More

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group,

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group,

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group, Arizona Air National Guard, flies over Alpena, Mich., during a training sortie during Northern Strike 19 at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, July 2... More

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Desiree Cortez, a defender

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Desiree Cortez, a defender

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Desiree Cortez, a defender with the 30th Security Forces Squadron, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, launches a small unmanned aircraft system during training at Eglin Air Forc... More

A Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) was the

A Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) was the

A Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) was the military-grade UAS used in the two-year project at Dugway Proving Ground to observe golden eagle nests. The project compared three observation methods to dete... More

160113-N-AT895-251 PATUXENT RIVER Md. (Jan. 13, 2016)

160113-N-AT895-251 PATUXENT RIVER Md. (Jan. 13, 2016)

160113-N-AT895-251 PATUXENT RIVER Md. (Jan. 13, 2016) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson views the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. Richardson also ... More

171002-M-CK339-011 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 2, 2017)

171002-M-CK339-011 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 2, 2017)

171002-M-CK339-011 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 2, 2017) Marines assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s (15th MEU) Unmanned Aerial Surveillance unit, retrieve an RQ-21A Blackjack small tactical unmanned ai... More

160321-M-MB391-068 (25443408683)

160321-M-MB391-068 (25443408683)

160321-M-MB391-068 CHERRY POINT, N.C. (March 21, 2016) A RQ-21A Blackjack recovers after it was launched for the first time into Class D airspace over MCAS Cherry Point. The RQ-21A Blackjack system is modular,... More

The Northrop Grumman-built Triton unmanned aircraft system completed its first flight from the company's manufacturing facility in Palmdale, Calif.

The Northrop Grumman-built Triton unmanned aircraft system completed i...

PALMDALE, Calif. (May. 22, 2013) The Northrop Grumman-built Triton unmanned aircraft system completed its first flight from the company's manufacturing facility in Palmdale, Calif. The one an a half hour flight... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A remote-controlled aircraft flies during a competition with a unique set of sensors and software to conduct a mock search-and-rescue operation. The aircraft was assembled by a team of engineers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Teams from Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center and Marshall competed in the unmanned aerial systems event to evaluate designs and work by engineers learning new specialties. The competition took place at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy. Photo credit: NASA/Dmitri Gerondidakis KSC-2013-3546

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A remote-controlled aircraft flies during a com...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A remote-controlled aircraft flies during a competition with a unique set of sensors and software to conduct a mock search-and-rescue operation. The aircraft was assembled by a team of en... More

A small unmanned aircraft system, commonly referred

A small unmanned aircraft system, commonly referred

A small unmanned aircraft system, commonly referred to as a drone, rests on its launch pad prior to takeoff at Coast Guard Station Curtis Bay, Maryland, Dec. 19, 2017. The SUAS team from the Defense Media Activ... More

Spc. Trever Weber, a U.S. Army paratrooper assigned

Spc. Trever Weber, a U.S. Army paratrooper assigned

Spc. Trever Weber, a U.S. Army paratrooper assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, throws a small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) Raven into flight prior to expected enem... More

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System  demonstrator completes

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator completes

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator completes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). The landing marks the first time any unmanned aircraft h... More

U.S. Marine Sgt. Kevin Ware launches a Small Unmanned

U.S. Marine Sgt. Kevin Ware launches a Small Unmanned

U.S. Marine Sgt. Kevin Ware launches a Small Unmanned Aircraft System, as part of exercise Joint Assault Signals Company Black, Waiouru Military Camp, New Zealand, Sept. 13, 2018. The Small Unmanned Aircraft Sy... More

An MQ-9B SkyGuardian glides beneath the clouds July

An MQ-9B SkyGuardian glides beneath the clouds July

An MQ-9B SkyGuardian glides beneath the clouds July 10, 2018, over Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Northrop Grumman Corporation, both tenants of Grand Forks AF... More

Soldiers from Charlie Troop, 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry

Soldiers from Charlie Troop, 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry

Soldiers from Charlie Troop, 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment prepare to load a RQ-to 7B V2 Shadow Unmanned Aircraft to a high powered launcher as preparation for Swift Response 19 at the Bulgarian Land Force... More

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Daniel Echevarria, intelligence

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Daniel Echevarria, intelligence

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Daniel Echevarria, intelligence analyst, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, prepares an RQ-20B Puma drone for launch during Operation Wild Buck (OWB) at Marine... More

An MQ-9 Reaper armed with eight AGM-114 Hellfire missiles

An MQ-9 Reaper armed with eight AGM-114 Hellfire missiles

An MQ-9 Reaper armed with eight AGM-114 Hellfire missiles sits on the flight line at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Sept. 10, 2020. The aircraft was prepared to perform a test with the 556th Test and Evaluation... More

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group,

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group,

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group, Arizona Air National Guard, flies over Alpena, Mich., during a training sortie during Northern Strike 19 at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, July 2... More

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group,

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group,

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group, Arizona Air National Guard, flies over Alpena, Mich., during a training sortie during Northern Strike 19 at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, July 2... More

An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air

An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air

An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Dec. 17, 2019. The Remotely Piloted Aircraft enterprise is made of Airmen across all career fields to deliver justice to our Nation’s ene... More

An unmanned aerial system hovers during a test flight

An unmanned aerial system hovers during a test flight

An unmanned aerial system hovers during a test flight July 9, 2020, at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas. The flight tested the capability for environmental scanning towards studying habitats of the rar... More

330-PSA-120-61 (80-KN 1814) (21651537675)

330-PSA-120-61 (80-KN 1814) (21651537675)

330-PSA-120-61 (80-KN 1814): The U.S. Navy’s new, long range anti-submarine weapon system, “Dash” (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), hovers in free flight over the flight deck of USS Hazelwood (DD 531). Suspen... More

NASA Ikhana, Dryden history gallery

NASA Ikhana, Dryden history gallery

NASA Aircraft Aiding Southern California Firefighting EffortRelease: 07-57 In response to a request from the California Office of Emergency Services and the National Interagency Fire Center, NASA is flying an a... More

Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems await maintenance

Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems await maintenance

Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems await maintenance Aug. 12 in the recently opened Fort Hood Unmanned Aircraft System Maintenance Hangar at Robert Gray Army Airfield, West Fort Hood, Texas. The hangar was bu... More

40th CAB takes charge of UAS missions in the Middle East (part 1)

40th CAB takes charge of UAS missions in the Middle East (part 1)

Unmanned aerial system repairers from Company F, 227th Aviation Regiment, 40th Combat Aviation Brigade, based out of Fort Hood, Texas, inspect an MQ-1C Gray Eagle in the Middle East, Jan. 7. Company F Gray Eagl... More

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Chadlee Roark, intelligence

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Chadlee Roark, intelligence

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Chadlee Roark, intelligence specialist, Headquarters and Support Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division (2d MARDIV), launches an RQ-20A Puma Unmanned Aircraft Sy... More

XQ-58A Valkyrie - A fighter jet flying through the air with smoke coming out of it

XQ-58A Valkyrie - A fighter jet flying through the air with smoke comi...

An XQ-58A Valkyrie low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle launches at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., Dec. 9, 2020. The flight successfully demonstrated the ability of new communications data to exchange in... More

The Cargo Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System is a

The Cargo Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System is a

The Cargo Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System is a revolutionary capability that can help to save lives and more efficiently support the warfighter in Afghanistan. The unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly referred t... More

Soldiers of Company D, 299th Brigade Engineer Battalion,

Soldiers of Company D, 299th Brigade Engineer Battalion,

Soldiers of Company D, 299th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, recover a Shadow Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle during readiness training, June 18, 2014. Operators a... More

U.S. Army Sgt. Deanna Lucchesi, left, an RQ-7B Shadow

U.S. Army Sgt. Deanna Lucchesi, left, an RQ-7B Shadow

U.S. Army Sgt. Deanna Lucchesi, left, an RQ-7B Shadow crew chief from Lowville, N.Y., and Pfc. Reynaldo Carlo, right, an RQ-7B Shadow crew member from Brooklyn, N.Y., both with 2nd Cavalry Regiment, Engineer Sq... More

Sgt. Eric Blanton, an unmanned aircraft systems repairer

Sgt. Eric Blanton, an unmanned aircraft systems repairer

Sgt. Eric Blanton, an unmanned aircraft systems repairer for Company D, 588th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, collects an RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aircraft after... More

Lance Cpls. Daniel Shannon and Andrew Donnelley, an

Lance Cpls. Daniel Shannon and Andrew Donnelley, an

Lance Cpls. Daniel Shannon and Andrew Donnelley, an intelligence clerk and a team leader with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, pick up the pieces of an RQ-11B Raven unmanned aircraft system following UAS fli... More

An Insitu ScanEagle, a small unmanned aerial vehicle,

An Insitu ScanEagle, a small unmanned aerial vehicle,

An Insitu ScanEagle, a small unmanned aerial vehicle, is caught on the SkyHook retreival system to end its flight during a demonstration for leaders from the Coast Guard Acquisition Directorate and the Research... More

The MQ-9 Reaper flies a training mission over the Nevada

The MQ-9 Reaper flies a training mission over the Nevada

The MQ-9 Reaper flies a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range, Jan. 14, 2020. The 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing flies local sorties at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada to prepare aircr... More

Senior Airman Anthony, 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

Senior Airman Anthony, 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

Senior Airman Anthony, 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, uses a forklift to reposition an MQ-9 casket Sept. 21, 2018, at Mather Airport, Calif. It takes eight to ten maintenance professionals appr... More

An MQ-9 Reaper propeller sits idle while parked on

An MQ-9 Reaper propeller sits idle while parked on

An MQ-9 Reaper propeller sits idle while parked on a taxiway during sunset at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Nov. 17, 2020. The Reaper’s extended loiter time and the vast number of Airmen from dozens of career ... More

An MQ-9 Reaper propeller sits idle while parked on

An MQ-9 Reaper propeller sits idle while parked on

An MQ-9 Reaper propeller sits idle while parked on a taxiway during sunset at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Nov. 17, 2020. The Reaper’s extended loiter time and the vast number of Airmen from dozens of career ... More

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D)  conducts flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) conducts ...

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Aug. 17, 2014) The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) conducts flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The aircraft completed a serie... More

Long wings, a V-tail with a ventral  fin and a rear-mounted engine distinguish the Altair, an unmanned aerial vehicle built for NASA by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. ED03-0078-4

Long wings, a V-tail with a ventral fin and a rear-mounted engine dis...

Long wings, a V-tail with a ventral fin and a rear-mounted engine distinguish the Altair, an unmanned aerial vehicle built for NASA by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

Unmanned Aircraft Communications Project GRC-2013-C-02281

Unmanned Aircraft Communications Project GRC-2013-C-02281

Unmanned Aircraft Communications Project Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Navy's unmanned X-47B flies near the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

The Navy's unmanned X-47B flies near the aircraft carrier USS Theodore...

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Aug. 17, 2014) The Navy's unmanned X-47B flies near the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The aircraft completed a series of tests demonstrating its ability to operate safely and... More

UTM Technical Capabilities Level 2 (TLC2) Test at Reno-Stead Airport.

UTM Technical Capabilities Level 2 (TLC2) Test at Reno-Stead Airport.

Test of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) technical capability Level 2 (TCL2) at Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada. During the test, five drones simultaneously crossed paths, separated by altitude. T... More

An MQ-9A Reaper assigned to the 556th Test and Evaluation

An MQ-9A Reaper assigned to the 556th Test and Evaluation

An MQ-9A Reaper assigned to the 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron sits on the ramp at Creech Air Force Base carrying eight Hellfire missiles. This was the first flight test of the MQ-9 carrying eight Hellfire ... More

A U.S. Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator

A U.S. Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator

A U.S. Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator aircraft launches from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) May 14, 2013, in the Atlantic Ocean. The George H.W. Bush was the first aircra... More

Pfc. Cooper Martin, an infantryman with 3rd Battalion,

Pfc. Cooper Martin, an infantryman with 3rd Battalion,

Pfc. Cooper Martin, an infantryman with 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, launches a Raven, a small unmanned aircraft system, during the Raven recertification... More

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator conducts

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator conducts

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator conducts a touch and go landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). The aircraft, nicknamed Salty Dog 501, made its debut a... More

200429-F-SP573-1077 (April, 4) A MQ-4C Triton taxis

200429-F-SP573-1077 (April, 4) A MQ-4C Triton taxis

200429-F-SP573-1077 (April, 4) A MQ-4C Triton taxis at Andersen Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Michael S. Murphy)

Sgt. Brandon Marshal, a signal support systems specialist

Sgt. Brandon Marshal, a signal support systems specialist

Sgt. Brandon Marshal, a signal support systems specialist in the 8th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, launches the Raven unmanned aerial vehicle during his fina... More

Soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old

Soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old

Soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) receive supplies from a Joint Tactical Aerial Resupply Vehicle (JTARV) on Fort A.P. Hill, Va., September 22, 2017. The JTARV, a quadcopter also known as... More

A MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system from the

A MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system from the

A MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system from the "Magicians" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35, the Navy's first composite expeditionary helicopter squadron, conducts flight operations off the... More

An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air

An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air

An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Dec. 17, 2019. The Remotely Piloted Aircraft enterprise is made of Airmen across all career fields to deliver justice to our Nation’s ene... More

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Aug. 6, 2015) A MQ-5B

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Aug. 6, 2015) A MQ-5B

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Aug. 6, 2015) A MQ-5B Hunter stands ready in a Task Force Copperhead Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detachment hangar at Kandahar Airfield. The MQ-5B is a multi-mission UAV equ... More

Artist concept of a Naval Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV-N)

Artist concept of a Naval Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV-N)

Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. (Jun. 06, 2003) Artist concept of a Naval Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV-N). The system consists of an air vehicle, mission control station and support elements. It is ... More

2nd Lt. Evan J. Wright preps the unmanned aircraft

2nd Lt. Evan J. Wright preps the unmanned aircraft

2nd Lt. Evan J. Wright preps the unmanned aircraft system while 2nd Lt. Steven A Delaunois holds the excess rope for him.

A Tiger Shark unmanned aerial vehicle returns from a mission supporting forces in theater.

A Tiger Shark unmanned aerial vehicle returns from a mission supportin...

U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND (Jun. 04, 2011) A Tiger Shark unmanned aerial vehicle returns from a mission supporting forces in theater. The Tiger Shark UAV is the result of a rapid deployment effort by the Naval Air Sy... More

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