Instead of an article on Hollywood starlets, the first remote control systems ... definitive image of the modern drone is that of the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator laden with a Hellfire anti ...

The Predator is part of a remotely ... The primary concept of operations, remote split operations, employs a launch-and-recovery ground control element for take-off and landing operations at ...

Author Mark Bowden writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Though unmanned, remote-controlled drones ... Later renamed the Predator, it quickly became the U.S. military's preferred surveillance ...