Exhibitions

Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

April 24, 2008 – January 2, 2019

National Air and Space Museum
6th St. & Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC

Suspended above Gallery 104, 1st Floor, West End

See on Map Floor Plan

On view are six aircraft—Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)—that represent a cross-section of modern unmanned flight systems technology. These aircraft are commonly used by all four military services around the globe to perform many types of missions, including reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, bomb damage assessment, and attack. The evolution of unmanned military aircraft began during World War I and continues today.