The Air National Guard’s Syracuse-based 174th Fighter Wing began flying MQ-9 Reaper drones out of Fort Drum’s Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield near Watertown on Tuesday. The fighter wing will fly the ...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:43:28 GMT — Drones operated by the New York Air National Guard will begin firing live missiles for the first time during training at Fort Drum this week. The Syracuse Post-Standard ...

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:09:00 GMT — Unmanned Reaper drone training flights have started from an air base at northern New York's Fort Drum. Federal aviation authorities gave permission for the flights ...

An MQ-9 Reaper taking off from Wheeler Sack Air Base at Fort Drum, N.Y., in February, 2012. President Obama's budget request includes $4.7 million to build a new hangar and expand a taxiway for the ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Dec. 1, 2011) -- This fall, for the first time ever, the airspace above Fort Drum was graced with a 10,500-pound unmanned aircraft performing an essential operation. It was a pivotal ...