America’s fleet of surveillance and attack drones are far older than most people realize. While the unmanned platforms have certainly come into the spotlight since the start of the War on Terror, they ...

Founded by T. Claude Ryan in 1934, part of Teledyne from 1969 and purchased by Northrop Grumman in 1999, Ryan Aeronautical company has designed, developed and built some of the most innovative and ...

The Firebee target drones built by Ryan Aeronautical Company have served the United States in literally more ways than one, and their unmatched potential forged a decades-long career in all three ...

One of the hardest problems in training jet fighter pilots is providing suitable targets for air-to-air gunnery practice. Towed sleeve targets are poor opposition. They are too slow to simulate enemy ...

Sure, the Pentagon's latest and greatest drones were there. But Gulf War II also saw the remergence of an unmanned plane that got its start nearly four decades ago, Defense Tech pal CW notes. "Vietnam ...

AT AN AIR BASE NEAR THE IRAQI BORDER -- Now that the crew is ready to return home, the story of the "Flying Taco Stand" and the missions the 46-year-old airplane flew to hoodwink Iraqi air defenses ...

The Air Force has announced a plan to pit a fighter drone against a human pilot next year, reviving the longstanding argument about whether drones can ever match Top Guns and how good the Air Force’s ...

The resulting AQM-34 Ryan Firebee was air-launched and controlled from a DC-130 director aircraft. After a mission, the Firebee UAV was directed to a safe recovery area, where it deployed its ...

The resulting AQM-34 Ryan Firebee was air-launched and controlled from a DC-130 director aircraft. After a mission, the Firebee UAV was directed to a safe recovery area, where it deployed its ...