Tanner Yackley, a former drone sensor operator with the US Air Force, spent years flying remote combat missions, tracking targets, and executing high-stakes strikes — all from a windowless room ...

A $13 million Air Force drone crashed in the Mediterranean Sea when its propeller “decoupled” from its engine, an Air Force report on the mishap concluded. But the report peels back a window on some ...

Almost half of the operators of Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles have high levels of job-related stress tied for the most part to the long and erratic hours they work, reports the New York Times. A ...

Drone warfare promised a kind of clean detachment. Pilots and sensor operators often sit in air-conditioned trailers half a world away from the dust and heat of battle. They commute from suburban ...