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By Oct 2, 2020
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This everyday piece of hardware crashed an $11 million drone

A loose washer made the Reaper's ground control station send out erroneous commands while on a mission.
By Sep 30, 2020
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Air Force patch depicting MQ-9 Reaper drone over China stirs anger in Beijing

There may be no patching things up for the United States and China after the latest dust-up between the two rivals
By Jun 12, 2020
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Lawmakers are once again fighting to save the A-10 Warthog from retirement

The Senate Armed Services Committee isn't keen on the U.S. Air Force's plans to retire legacy aircraft in favor of new technology, putting a stop to some proposed aircraft retirements...
By May 27, 2020
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MQ-9 Reaper crew awarded Air Force Achievement Medals for quick response to RPG attack on C-130

"If we weren't there for the C-130 drop, the bad guys could have gotten away, and that's the worst scenario ... Because if they get away free, they do it...
By May 8, 2020
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‘That place is a dumpster fire’ — Inside the Air Force’s dilapidated Reaper school, which won’t be fixed anytime soon

"They have a massive workload in a condemned building and instruction quality suffers because they are exhausted.”
By May 8, 2020
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MQ-9 Reaper operations at Holloman Air Force Base

Combat rescue officers, from the 351st Specials Warfare Training Squadron, visited Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., to train with MQ-9 Reaper pilots and sensor operators from the 6th and 16th...
By Apr 17, 2020
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A Marine crew just rocked an MQ-9 Reaper drone downrange for the first time

Have no fear: the Reaper is here
By Apr 8, 2020
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The militants fired an RPG at a C-130. They didn’t expect the MQ-9 Reaper to respond

A group of militants recently took a shot at an Air Force C-130 Hercules — and got their asses handed to them in the process
By Feb 13, 2020
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The Pentagon is sacrificing F-35s and other weapons systems to find $3.8 billion to fund the border wall

The Navy is sacrificing two F-35Bs, two V-22s, and one P-8A Poseidon to pay for the border wall. The Air Force is losing four C-130J Hercules and eight MQ-9 Reapers.
By Jan 7, 2020
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Inside the drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani

Even before Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani got off a commercial airliner in Baghdad last week, his fate was already sealed