The Qinetiq Banshee Jet 80+ target drone has bowed out of Royal Navy service shortly after a live fire exercise where several were shot down by a Wildcat helicopter. The Banshee 80+ was officially ...

The F2H Banshee served bravely during the early Cold War, but in a sky filled with faster, deadlier MiGs, it quickly earned a harsh nickname—MiG bait. Discover the story of a jet caught between ...

Images of what appeared to be a Banshee Jet 80+ unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) were published by Russian media and Moscow-installed officials in Donetsk last week. Those surfaced alongside claims ...

Russia claims to have successfully 'intercepted' a British Banshee Jet-80 kamikaze drone and obtained its secrets. The country's FSB security service claimed to have overridden its flight plan as ...

As a replacement, the Navy is looking at using QinetiQ Banshee Jet 80+ drones operating from HMS Prince of Wales. Drones have long been used in military exercises, but this is usually in the form ...

Aboard the USS Oriskany off the coast of Okinawa, June 28, 1955: Crew members of the USS Oriskany examine the crushed remains of the Banshee jet that crashed into the fantail of the attack ...

QinetiQ's MQM-185B target, based on the Banshee Jet 80+, aims to provide the US Army with hyper-realistic training capabilities. QinetiQ has secured a contract to provide a specially tailored version ...

Meggitt's venerable Banshee target drone is now available in a jet version which adds 80kt (148km/h) to its top speed, to 240kt. Power is by a single JetCat motor, as used in radio controlled ...

QinetiQ is to provide the US Army’s Threat Systems Management Office (TSMO) with a uniquely developed version of its Banshee Jet 80+. Known as the MQM-185B, the target will help the US Army train for ...

(Editor’s note [1955]: SP3 Neal E. Callahan, Stars and Stripes staffer, was aboard the carrier Oriskany when a Navy Banshee jet crashed into the fantail during a landing. This is his eyewitness ...

May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- QinetiQ is to provide the US Army's Threat Systems Management Office (TSMO) with a uniquely developed version of its Banshee Jet 80+. Known as the MQM-185B ...