On March 9th, 2018, the US Air Force officially retired Predator. Predator was the one which initiated the era of unmanned air combat and put the fear of god into the heart of America’s enemies especially the terrorists.
MQ1 Predator is now replaced by a much more capable MQ-9 Reaper which will be the backbone of US Air Force drone operations going forward.
U.S. Air Force officer has now revealed that an MQ-9 Reaper had secured the first ever air-to-air kill in a trail almost a year ago.
Col. Julian Cheater, commander of the 432nd Wing at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada said to Military.com “Something that’s unclassified but not well known, we recently in November … launched an air-to-air missile against a maneuvering target that scored a direct hit. It was an MQ-9 versus a drone with a heat-seeking air-to-air missile, and it was direct hit … during a test.” He acknowledged that it’s the first-of-its-kind kill.
This comes months after USAF told that it was looking to provide some of the drones with the capability to take on aerial threats.
In the video, analyzes how American MQ-9 Reaper drone could take out Russian & Chinese fighter jets?
Let’s get in the details.
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Whole bull dust American loosers
Yes, but can it take out su35 ??the most potent air to air adversary for US, since it’s unmanned Russia won’t hesitate to shoot it down
India should acquire MQ9 the latest armed Drone.
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My feedback is that if you are comparing 2 things (like different drones) it would be good to have side by side stats on the screen.
A slow aircraft with a AIM 9X…how is it threatening to supersonic, highly maneuverable aircraft with long range AAMs?
Title of video should be: How US drone could take out Russian and Chinese planes and start world war 3.
Great!!!
Is reaper have stealth features or anti radiation radar?
If US will go for war against China ?? ??India will support USA ??…. We both countries will smash china.
it means that Russian and Chinese are just sitting and clapping??…keep dreaming buddy
This could be a step in the direction towards unmanned air-to-air combat. The next step is to try and convert the drone with beyond visual range capabilities such as improved avionics and longer range weapons like the AIM 120D air-to-air. But the AIM 120D is a lot bigger and also heavier than the AIM 9X and I don’t know if the MQ 9 can fit or carry the bigger heavier missile.
You idiots just crashed a F35 B
don’t your surface to air missiles work anymore?
How? if the WW3 starts, and then MQ-9 Reaper drone will be insignificant! Playing war from 5000 km away, very brave!
Fuck Russia and China
The countdown was better in your older videos.
Bit of a bold statement , especially against the latest gen russian jets