French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu posted the point-of-view perspective of the MQ-9 predator drone as it soared above the sea on Sunday. Video showed the Sukhoi multirole fighter buzzing ...

The aircraft is part of the GA-ASI’s Predator drone series, known for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities, as well as kinetic and non-kinetic fire support overmatch.

The U.S. Air Force introduced the MQ-9 Reaper drone in 2007 as a larger weapons platform than its predecessor, the MQ-1 Predator drone. The Reaper looks very much like the Predator, only larger ...

Since the Predator drone is primarily designed for reconnaissance operations, the UAV would have been unprepared to defend itself if actually shot down by the Iranian pilots. However, the Su-25s ...