Drones

Hey Geeks! Here you can read all Drones stories published on The Aviation Geek Club site.

Iran’s First Aircraft Carrier is under construction (It will be a Drone Aircraft Carrier obtained from Converted Merchant Ship and it’s expected To Be Launched In 2023)

Iran’s First Aircraft Carrier is under construction (It will be a Drone Aircraft Carrier obtained from Converted Merchant Ship and it’s expected To Be Launched In 2023)

Iran’s sectarian naval force is converting a former merchant container ship into a drone aircraft carrier in a dry dock… Read More

3 months ago

USAF F-15 fighter jet shot down an Iranian Mojer-6 UAV over Iraq

A USAF F-15 fighter jet was scrambled to shoot down an Iranian drone that appeared to be heading towards US… Read More

6 months ago

US Navy Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet test jet controls three UAVs

The UAVs executed all commands given by Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet pilots during tests over a two-week period. Boeing… Read More

8 months ago

DARPA looks to leverage laser-equipped KC-46 and KC-135 tankers to recharge drones wirelessly

The benefits of having drones recharge their batteries in mid-air include extended range and having small energy storage capacities. The… Read More

10 months ago

Aviano F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets Deploy to Croatia after Crash of Tupolev Tu-141 drone from Russia-Ukraine War

The F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets arrived a few days after a military drone crashed in the Croatian capital of… Read More

1 year ago

As a Ukrainian Tupolev Tu-141 drone crashes in Croatia, Moscow says it destroyed 90% of the Ukrainian Air Bases (But The Pentagon says that 90% of the Ukrainian Air Force is intact)

Ukrainians lost another Su-25. The VKS lost two additional jets, too: a Su-30 or Su-34 and a Su-25. After claiming… Read More

1 year ago

The Bayraktar TB2 Drone is so effective against Russian vehicles that the Ukrainians made a pop song about it. And the Official Video is going viral on YouTube.

The Ukrainians have even made a pop song about the Bayraktar TB2, probably one of the first songs ever written… Read More

1 year ago

Safe, Reliable, and Uninhabited: in a first-ever Flight Demonstration a Black Hawk Helicopter flies with No One Inside in a 30-minute Flight

The Model A Black Hawk helicopter, identifiable by DARPA’s logo and tail number N60-OPV, completed a pre-flight check list, started… Read More

1 year ago

The story of the D-21 Drone and project Senior Bowl, the Most Secret Program ever developed by the famed Lockheed Skunk Works

At Beale Air Force Base , in California, you would think that the SR-71 Blackbird program would be the biggest… Read More

1 year ago

Boeing MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial refueler Completes First Carrier Tests

The US Navy and Boeing have successfully maneuvered an MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial refueler on a US Navy aircraft carrier… Read More

1 year ago

USAF awards Exosonic contract to build supersonic Drone to act as a near-peer adversary fighter for aggressor training

The Exosonic supersonic UAV will help the pilot training mission by acting as a near-peer adversary fighter to challenge fighter… Read More

1 year ago

Video shows MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial tanker refueling an F-35C Lightning II for the first time

On Sep. 13, 2021 the integrated Navy and Boeing MQ-25 team, in coordination with the F-35 program, conducted the refueling… Read More

2 years ago

USAF F-15E Strike Eagle shot down Iranian drone over Syria after flying ‘too close’ to US troops

The USAF F-15E shot down the drone over eastern Syria when it was deemed a threat. A US Air Force… Read More

2 years ago

MQ-25 Stingray refuels Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye command and control aircraft, completing second unmanned aerial tanking to date

On Jun. 4, the MQ-25 Stingray became the first unmanned aircraft to refuel another aircraft, a US Navy F/A-18 Super… Read More

2 years ago

XQ-58A Valkyrie Tail #1 slated to go to USAF Museum after just four flights

The XQ-58A was the first aircraft developed in partnership between AFRL and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to be a… Read More

2 years ago

Boeing MQ-25 first to conduct unmanned aerial tanking

The MQ-25 will assume the tanking role currently performed by F/A-18s, allowing for better use of the combat strike fighters… Read More

2 years ago

The story behind this incredible photo of a North Vietnamese MiG-21 flying extremely close to a Firebee drone (and other BQM-34 tales)

The deployment of BQM-34 Firebee reconnaissance drones during the Vietnam War (and over the PR China) would be worth a… Read More

2 years ago