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The drug runners call it “el mosco,” the mosquito, and one recent evening on the southern tip of Texas, a Predator B armed with cameras buzzed softly over the beach on South Padre Island and headed inland. Continue reading
Panelists at Aviation Week’s NextGen conference identified a proven sense-and-avoid system as the biggest challenge for the coming integration of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system (NAS). Continue reading
One part bazooka round; one part suicidal drone; one part stun round. What the U.S. Army hopes will emerge from that mix is a warhead that can loiter in midair while it hunts a human target — but won’t kill him when it finds him.
The North American X-10 (model RTV-A-5) was an unmanned technology demonstrator for advanced missile technologies during the 1950s. Continue reading
Russia will test fly its first domestically-produced strike unmanned aircraft in 2014, according to First Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Sukhorukov.
This scary video shows just what can be done with an amateur COTS system in the hands of a skilled pilot. Continue reading
Urban Aeronautics will soon perform the first flight of an AirMule ducted fan unmanned aircraft system fitted with a double-redundant hydraulic system. Continue reading
Advanced Defense Technologies, Inc. has announced that as ADTI’s Seek and Avoid technology moves forward with integration into its UAS system, it sees some of the first commercial applications for border security. Continue reading