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A key lesson of history is that every war is different. Consequently, to benefit from the insights provided by history, prudent war planners must confront the probability of the unexpected [...]

* POINT MUGU, Calif.--On a strip of marshland abutting the Pacific Ocean, the buzz of drones could be heard flying overhead. In the adjacent flight line, a handful of unmanned [...]

The Navy's leader in unmanned aviation and strike weapons talks about the technology, priorities and strategy behind the rapidly growing force of the future. The new normal Today we are [...]

This commentary is in response to Alan W. Dowd's 'Drone Wars: Risks and Warnings'; W. Andrew Terrill's 'Drones over Yemen: Weighing Military Benefits and Political Costs'; Greg Kennedy's 'Drones: Legitimacy [...]

* The U.S. military may be the most high-profile owner and operator of unmanned aircraft, but it is far from the only customer of the controversial vehicles. There is no [...]

at the edge of a stubbly, dried-out alfalfa field outside Grand Junction, Colorado, Deputy Sheriff Derek Johnson, a stocky young man with a buzz cut, squints at a speck crawling [...]

GROWTH IN the monetary value of the military drone business, although not repeating its meteoric ascent of the last decade, is expected to remain positive for the next several years, [...]

A single Predator or Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that Air National Guard pilots fly over Iraq and Afghanistan can collect enough video and other information in a day to [...]

FOR ENSIGN KYNDRA CHITWOOD, LEARNING HOW TO FLY blind is just part of becoming 'a U.S. naval aviator. The 23-year-old strides across the flight it line at Naval Air Station [...]

'The only way the mortar team was able to evade your pursuit was by digging in, a tactic that does not play well to their strengths, and making it only [...]

It's clear that the Navy intends to buy a carrier-based unmanned aircraft able to conduct reconnaissance and, if needed, strike a target. But after years of deliberation among service officials, [...]

* Northrop Grumman's X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle in May took off from the USS George H.W. Bush, circled back to the vessel and skimmed its wheels across the flight deck [...]

Byline: James Drew US Air Force Special Operations Command wants an expendable, tube-launched small unmanned aerial vehicle for its AC-130 'battleplane' for peering beneath cloud cover to direct gunfire and [...]

As reported by Military & Aerospace Electronics, the Defense Department is seeking $2.45 billion in fiscal year 2015 funds for unmanned aerial vehicle acquisition and research, 15.8 per cent greater [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2013 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The Europa-S signal intercept and geolocation system built by Maryland USA-based WGS Systems has now been integrated and flown in an Arcturus UAV T-20 Tier [...]

rom catapult launch to wing-snagging recovery, the Boeing Insitu RQ-21A Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) will downlink imagery and data to U.S. Marine Corps ground forces and Navy ships. [...]

With its regional focus shifting and different threats to face, the US military has new requirements of UAVs - reflected in the navy's UCLASS programme With its regional focus shifting [...]

Indigenously designed and developed Rustom-1 made 14th successful flight recently at Kolar with attainment of about 11,500 ft AGL (above ground level) and speed of above 140 kmph during 2 [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2011, 2011 In recent years, unmanned aerial systems have been playing an increasingly important role in military operations worldwide. Many of the [...]

Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) (TASE: ARSP.B1) will unveil its new tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for tactical missions. Called the 'Panther', the UAV will be unveiled tomorrow at the [...]

Several countries have expressed interest, but the United States and Israel have led the way in arming unmanned aircraft systems By Richard Whittle The decision by the United States a [...]

Congress has set a 2015 deadline for the Federal Aviation Administration to phase drones into civil airspace, but one of the technologies needed to safely operate unmanned aircraft won't be [...]

As the conflict in Afghanistan draws to a close, die Defense Department finds itself having to maintain unmanned aircraft fleets with less money and fewer resources. Experts and industry officials [...]

Soldier-borne sensors, leader-follower cargo-hauling technology and tiny, handheld unmanned aircraft are in the forefront of new technologies planned for U.S. warfighters, according to Maj. Gen. Robert M. 'Bo' Dyess. In [...]

Unmanned Warrior 2016, the largest exercise for marine unmanned vehicles, has gotten underway in the North Atlantic, off the coast of Scotland. The UK's Royal Navy hosts the event, and [...]

Low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles are equipped with cameras, laser designators, radio frequency collection devices or weapons. The size and composite materials used in UAV production make them difficult to defeat [...]

* Ask a layman to name an unmanned aerial vehicle, and he will probably cite one of the armed drones used by the Air Force, such as the Predator or [...]