The Pentagon has authorized the Air Force to pay a $35,000 critical skills retention bonus programs for qualified remotely piloted aircraft pilots. As reported in August, the increase is part of an ...

Gen. Hawk Carlisle, the head of Air Combat Command, listened to remotely piloted aircraft pilots, sensor operators and other airmen in the career field for nearly four hours Friday as they laid out ...

An MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft operated by the New York Air National Guard's 174th Attack Wing takes to the air from the runway at Syracuse Hancock International Airport in Syracuse, N.Y. on ...

Avionics specialists with the 12th Aircraft Maintenance Unit prepare a Global Hawk for a runway taxi test at Beale Air Force Base, Calif. The Global Hawk is scheduled to begin flying at Beale in early ...

Avionics specialists with the 12th Aircraft Maintenance Unit prepare a Global Hawk for a runway taxi test at Beale Air Force Base, Calif. (Stacey Knott/Air Force) The Air Force has begun selecting the ...

The Air Force is pursuing a range of options that will, in combination with a reset in the number of sustainable combat air patrols, help alleviate long-term stress on Remotely Piloted Aircraft crews.

CREECH AIR FOCE BASE, Nevada — Drones. The once harmless term has taken on new meaning in recent years largely due to misinformation, Hollywood dramatizations and their growing uses in non-military ...

The U.S. Air Force now has more jobs for MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper drones than any other type of pilot position, the head of Air Education and Training Command said last week. "I never thought I'd ...

A screen capture from an Air Force video shows SIRIS in use. A group of resourceful Air Force intelligence experts are being recognized for taking existing technology and developing a Web-based system ...

New Drone Demo Team Maintains Social Distancing, Performs Remote Airshows. In a novel, April 1, 2020, response to the seriousness of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the U.S. Air Force has announced the ...

WASHINGTON (AFNS) | The Air Force recently approved two initiatives for the remotely piloted aircraft career field. First, eight RPA reconnaissance squadrons will be redesignated as attack squadrons.

SAN DIEGO – On Nov. 9, 2023, the Italian Air Force (ItAF) made its first flight of a new MQ-9A Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). The ...