RQ-4

The first of the next generation of Northrop Grumman’s Block 40 configuration RQ-4 Global Hawk has successfully taken to the air for the first time with a flight lasting around two hours.

The MQ-9 Reaper, a hunter-killer UAV with long loitering capability, has completed its first operational mission in Iraq.

Britain's most sophisticated unmanned surveillance system, the Reaper UAV, has been deployed in Afghanistan.

September 11, 2007 Using new solar array technology and a tailor-built autopilot system, QinetiQ's Zephyr High Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicl

August 31, 2007 The US Airforce has announced the deployment of a new squadron of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) into combat zones in Afghanistan and Iraq. Capa

August 10, 2007 Northrop Grumman has announced that it will equip its unmanned aircraft with technology that makes it safer to share airspace with piloted aircr

December 15, 2006 Australia’s new military helicopter is currently being checked out by France's Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (DGA) in Australia and par

November 2, 2006 Raytheon has unveiled what it calls its Universal Control System (UCS) - a first of its kind unmanned aerial system (UAS) 'cockpit' that revol

October 20, 2006 Aircraft AI-001, the first Army I-GNAT ER unmanned aircraft produced for the U.S. Army, is continuing the illustrious General Atomics Pred

September 14, 2006 The Air Force has announced 'Reaper' has been chosen as the name for the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle, the Air Force's first hunter-killer

November 11, 2005 The Global Hawk UAV was still in its development stages when the needs of the war in Afghanistan saw it pressed into service. Since then, Gl

February 2, 2005 - Northrop Grumman has successfully completed the first phase of flight testing a demonstrator version of a new medium altitude endurance unman