Here’s The Best Military Drones From Around The World

MQ-9 Reaper

Representing the 9th iteration of the MQ series of remotely piloted aircraft, the MQ-9 Reaper is an, “armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft that is employed primarily against dynamic execution targets and secondarily as an intelligence collection asset.”

The Reaper is based off the MQ-1 Predator and can be transported in a C-130 Hercules. There are currently as many as 93 MQ-9 Reapers in service with the U.S. Air Force. It is 36 feet long with a 66-foot wingspan, can fly up to 1,150 miles and has a service ceiling north of 50,000 feet. It entered service in 2007.

MQ-9 Reaper: $64.2 million per unit