Following a military assessment in 2004, approximately 25 MAVs are scheduled for transfer to the Army in 2005. Other vertical takeoff and landing tactical UAVs, such as the Northrop Grumman Fire Scout ...

(Photo by Spc. Javion Siders/U.S. Army) The Army is scouring industry for unmanned aircraft systems to launch from medium- or high-altitude platforms that would perform tasks like intelligence ...

But the Predator and the dozen other operational UAVs in the U.S. military arsenal owe their existence to the past. They are only the most recent and advanced installments in a century-old history ...