Following the Korean War and the signing of a mutual defense treaty, the U.S. military has approximately 28,500 ...

The escalating tensions between the US and Russia hit an all-time high in March 2023 due to a dramatic incident caught on camera over the Black Sea. An American Reaper drone was conducting routine ...

The long dominance of expensive, long-endurance drones like the $30 million MQ-9 Reaper may be ending as threats to them proliferate. advertisement.

The Reaper Is More and More Vulnerable. The MQ-9 Reaper has increasingly fallen behind newer drone variants, however—and grown more susceptible to anti-air efforts from the ground. Most notably ...