General Atomics MQ-1 Predator facts for kids

General Atomics MQ-1 Predator in flight, shown its Hellfire's missile.

The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator is an American unmanned aerial vehicle. It is used by the US Air Force and the CIA for reconnaissance and as light attack aircraft. It is a single-engine aircraft. It was used in Afghanistan and Iraq. Its main weapon is the AGM-114 Hellfire light missile.

Italy, Morocco, and UAE are foreign operators.

Images for kids

At Paris Air Show 2007
A Predator flies on a simulated Navy aerial reconnaissance flight off the coast of southern California on 5 December 1995.
Predator operators at Balad Camp Anaconda, Iraq, August 2007
Close-up of the Hellfire missile pylon, 2004.
RQ-1A Predator
Predator launching a Hellfire missile
An MQ-1B Predator from the 361st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron takes off 9 July 2008 from Ali Base, Iraq.
Operators of the aircraft.
Three contract maintainers walk an RQ-1 into a shelter at Balad Air Base, Iraq in 2006.
RQ-1 Predator of the Italian Air Force
RQ-1B Predator 3-view drawing
MQ-1B Predator 3-view drawing