It's been more than 20 years now since the American military started flying something called the MQ-9A Reaper drone. Over 300 of them are currently operating the skies of the world, conducting ...

An American MQ-9 Reaper drone recently fired a Switchblade loitering munition at a testing target, marking the first time a US drone had deployed another drone for combat. Drone technology is ...

Analysts note that similar dynamics appeared when Azerbaijan used drones to dismantle Armenia’s defenses in Nagorno, showing ...

GA-ASI and AeroVironment demonstrate first-ever air launch of Switchblade 600 from MQ-9A, advancing drone mothership concepts for smaller UAS. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and ...

Soldiers pilot the Switchblade 600 munition during a live-fire exercise on Fort Hood, Texas, Sept. 15. (Spc. Julian A. Winston/U.S. Army) Soldiers with the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division recently tested ...

The contractor supplying Switchblade loitering munitions to the Defense Department under the first phase of the Replicator initiative has delivered “hundreds” of systems to a customer who has fielded ...

Could a 40-pound drone actually equal the tank-slaying punch of a Javelin missile? AeroVironment’s just-revealed Switchblade 400 is positioned to do just that packing the killing power of its larger ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spurred a flurry of evolution in drone warfare — so much so that the US, with one of the most advanced militaries and defense industrial complexes in the world, found ...