An MQ-9B Reaper taxis down the runway at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, Arizona, in 2019. (Lance Cpl. Colton Brownlee/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps has ...

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — In June 2025, the U.S. Marine Corps received its final MQ-9A Reaper Block 5 Extended Range (ER) Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems ...

The recruits are starving and exhausted by the time they crest The Reaper, the last hill at the end of a grim 72-hour stretch of basic training known as The Crucible. By this point in their 13 ...

Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 3 (VMU 3) introduced its new Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles in a ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, last week.

The squadron has trained more than 75 Navy and Marine Corps F-35C pilots, trained more than 1,200 F-35C maintainers, flown nearly 11,000 flight hours and accepted more than 30 aircraft, ...

Until now, the company had been operating the Reaper for the Marine Corps. The aircraft have flown more than 7,000 hours for the service since September 2018, according to General Atomics.

Marine Corps pilots and sensor operators from Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1 (VMU-1) successfully conducted their first operational flight of an MQ-9 Reaper drone in the Middle East on ...

The US Marine Corps has equipped its MQ-9 Reaper drones with a new electronic warfare pod. The pod "can mimic things that are sent to it," Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith said.

U.S. Marines load a boxed-up MQ-9 Reaper drone onto a cargo plane en route to the Middle East, in a photo released by Marine Corps Forces Central Command on Aug. 12, 2023.

A U.S. Marine Corps MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aircraft system with Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Training Squadron (VMUT) 2 taxis at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, Nov. 21, 2024.