With $10 billion in development costs, the Global Hawk UAV has been an expensive proposition ... FA's Tyler Rogoway got up close with the RQ-4, as it's officially known, and pointed out that ...

Capable of flying faster than Mach 3, the SR-71 had two crew members ... General Atomics Aeronautical Systems RQ-1 Predator.

The RQ-2A represents one of the U.S. Navy’s first ... from recently-recommissioned battleships in the 1980s. The UAV was later adopted by the Marine Corps for ground-based operations.

Click on the UAV icons below to learn more about the Predator and some of its UAV ancestors. — Lexi Krock Years before the first manned airplane flight on December 17, 1903, primitive UAV ...