Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Vincent De Groot | 185th Air Refueling Wing, Iowa Air National Guard | 04.21.2020
A U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator outside the Air National Guard Paint Facility at the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa on April 21, 2020. The remotely piloted aircraft has been painted at the western Iowa based paint facility in preparation to be placed on static display. The aircraft will be placed on display at the Air National Readiness Center at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland in......
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Paul Holcomb | 432nd Wing | 05.13.2013
An MQ-1B Predator remotely piloted aircraft flies overhead during a training mission, May 13, 2013. The Predator system continues to provide required armed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to overseas contingency operations warfighters. During June 2011, the Predator surpassed one million hours of total development, test, training, and combat flying hours - a......
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Paul Holcomb | 432nd Wing | 05.13.2013
An MQ-1B Predator remotely piloted aircraft passes over the air field during a training mission, May 13, 2013. Predators can perform the following missions and tasks: intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, close air support, combat search and rescue, precision strike, buddy-lase, convoy/raid overwatch, route clearance, target development, and terminal air guidance. Its capabilities......
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Paul Holcomb | 432nd Wing | 05.13.2013
An MQ-1B Predator remotely piloted aircraft comes in for a ‘touch-and-go’ during a training mission, May 13, 2013. The MQ-1B Predator is an armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft that is employed primarily as an intelligence-collection asset and secondarily for munitions capability to support ground troops and base defense. (U.S. Air Force photo by......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson | 332d Air Expeditionary Wing | 11.08.2008
An MQ-1 Predator with the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance and Attack Squadron prepares to land at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, after a mission Nov. 8. Predators provide armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities for ground force commanders....