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Pentagon wants drones to replace some US troops in Sinai
Apr 12, 2016 (AFP)
The Pentagon wants to cut the number of US peacekeeping troops in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, partly because of the growing threat from the Islamic State group, an...
Iran's new aerial drone makes maiden flight
Apr 12, 2016 (UPI)
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC, on Tuesday unveiled its newest aerial surveillance drone during large-scale military exercises in the western part o...
Fixed-Wing Drones Own a Niche in Japan
Apr 06, 2016 (JPN)
While the advent of the Drone Age has seen the proliferation of multi-rotor machines of various sizes and shapes, 'old-style' fixed-wing drones are still in dem...
Sagem supplying Patroller drones to French Army
Apr 06, 2016 (UPI)
Sagem's Patroller unmanned aerial vehicle has been chosen for the French Army's tactical drone system program. A total of 14 Patroller UAVs will be supplied to ...
Gremlins takes flight to provide air-recoverable unmanned air systems
Apr 05, 2016 (SPX)
DARPA has awarded Phase 1 contracts for its Gremlins program, which seeks to develop innovative technologies and systems enabling aircraft to launch volleys of ...
Skilled drone pilots needed
Apr 04, 2016 (JPN)
Online and newspaper "Help Wanted" ads are likely to include a new kind of job listing in the near future: skilled drone pilots ready for immediate work on sola...
Nowhere to hide with drones over Tokyo
Apr 04, 2016 (JPN)
The next buzz among Tokyoites may not be the latest cell phone app or chic fashion trend, but the sound of an overhead drone on the prowl. Considering Japan's g...
Filling the gap at Air Force Reserve
Mar 23, 2016 (SPX)
Manned and remotely piloted aircraft and systems routinely fly over the Middle East, collecting information, however it takes intelligence analysts to identify ...
Drones promise to improve ecological monitoring
Mar 17, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers have already begun using drones for all kinds of ecological monitoring, but until now, scientists hadn't studied their efficacy. A basic question re...
Pentagon, Other Federal Agencies Use Drones for Domestic Surveillance
Mar 14, 2016 (Sputnik)
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Big Brother watching again! It all started a decade ago when the US border patrol began using surveillance drones to monitor...
Inside the Pentagon's Drone Proving Ground
Mar 10, 2016 (Sputnik)
Deep in the Nevada desert is a top secret, little-known US military facility known as Area 6, rumored to be the Pentagon's test ground for cutting-edge unmanned...
Researchers develop miniaturized fuel cell that makes drones fly more than 1 hour
Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)
Drones are used for various applications such as aero picturing, disaster recovery, and delivering. Despite attracting attention as a new growth area, the bigge...
Intelsat and L-3 demonstrate automatic beam switching for UAVs
Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)
Intelsat General Corporation and L-3 Communication Systems-West (L-3 CS-West) has announced the successful demonstration of new automatic beam switching technol...
White House to release data on drone strikes
Mar 07, 2016 (AFP)
The White House for the first time will release casualty figures from its controversial drone program, officials said on Monday, amid criticism that the airstri...
British engineers launch ground breaking drone defence technology
Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)
OpenWorks Engineering, a group of British engineers, has invented a system that offers security operators a ground-breaking alternative way to defeat nefarious ...
France, Britain sign 2bn euro combat drone programme deal
Mar 03, 2016 (AFP)
France and Britain on Thursday inked a deal to invest more than two billion euros in the development of next generation combat drones, Paris said in a statement...
Longer wings boost Predator B flight endurance time
Mar 01, 2016 (UPI)
The Predator B remotely piloted aircraft, known as the MQ-9 Reaper, has successfully performed its first flight with extended wings for greater endurance. The f...
New sensor payload capability available for Global Hawk
Feb 26, 2016 (UPI)
A Northrop Grumman solution to enable the use of legacy and future sensor systems on its RQ-4 Global Hawk drone has been successfully demonstrated. The test inv...
US failing to explain deadly drone policy: report
Feb 23, 2016 (AFP)
The United States has made little or no progress in explaining how and why it orders lethal drone strikes, even as America's reliance on the unmanned aircraft s...
NASA Global Hawk Flies Pacific Storm Mission
Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)
Extreme weather predictions on the West Coast could become more accurate with help from NASA's remotely piloted Global Hawk. Flights to look at Pacific storms a...
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