All the stories tagged with drone
Drone Takes Off From US Aircraft Carrier
05/15/2013, The US is the de facto world superpower for some time now, and this is because of their military and technological strength that they hold over other countries. It seems that the latest improvement in modern day warfare could be [...]
X-47B Drone Makes Successful Landing In Simulation
05/06/2013, The world of robotics has made yet another contribution, where this time around, the X-47B, which is the most valued drone by the Navy, has managed to perform a successful simulated landing on an aircraft carrier deck – and this [...]
Drone Fleets Does Supply Runs In The Future
03/26/2013, What would be the next evolutionary step when it comes to supply delivery? Well, cellphones and smartphones have more or less made us take wireless connectivity for granted, and Paola Santana is one who figured out that flying drones could [...]
US Targets Small Ships As Drone Bases
03/04/2013, The US military has proven to be a premier worldwide fighting force, or at least that is what popular culture depicts, and here is another creative approach to warfare in the seven seas. They intend to make use of fleets [...]
MeCam Drone Records Memories For You
01/31/2013, Now this is interesting – it was slightly more than a week ago when we brought you word of a wearable camera known as the MeCam, but here we are with another MeCam in tow, although this one is slightly [...]
Drones To Watch Over US Highways
01/31/2013, When we talk about drones, most of us would most probably think about the military sort, where they swoop in on enemy territory, sometimes letting go of their payload to make sure that the enemy is killed – without having [...]
LA100 Flying UAV Drone
01/30/2013, Here is a rather large – and shall I say, expensive, accessory for your GoPro devices, where it will come in the form of the LA100 Flying UAV Drone. Touted to be the first fully autonomous UAV drone aircraft in [...]
Hollywood Looks To FAA For Permission To Shoot Movies With Drones
01/30/2013, We have seen some pretty wicked angles in movie shots for quite some time already, and some of these shots rely on computer generated imagery, while others do involve a helicopter flying around to get that money shot in. Whatever [...]
This flying drone armed with a paintball gun is pretty cool, but potentially dangerous
12/13/2012, Getting shot by a paintball during a paintball event is painful enough, even when you brace yourself for it, so you can only imagine how much more it will hurt when you get shot while completely unaware. We’re pretty sure [...]
The US Military Has Mounted GPS-Guided Mortars on (Relatively) Tiny Drones
11/01/2012, The US Army and General Dynamis announced today that they’ve tested guided 81-millimeter mortar rounds mounted onto a small, 200 pound drone. Previously, guided drone strikes required huge drones like the Predator or Global Hawk, equipped with five-foot long Hellfire [...]
US drone transmissions are not as secure as we think
10/30/2012, You know what they say – a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and in the case of the US military with their vaunted army of Predator and Reaper drones, it was discovered that our men and [...]
The US Navy Can Now Launch Missiles From Unmanned Boats
10/30/2012, The military and quasi-military divisions of the United States Government have been able to launch missiles from unarmed flying drones for a while, but only recently have they expanded the functionality to unmanned seafaring vessels. Today, the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Naval Special [...]
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 MQ-27 Dragonfire drone passes the FCC
09/17/2012, If you are an avid fan of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, then surely you would have seen the MQ-27 Dragonfire drone that is surely one of the more interesting vehicles in the game itself. This is an unmanned [...]
