The Federal Aviation Administration is drafting a rule that would allow only unmanned aircraft of less than 55 pounds to be operated inside the United States.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 14, 2012
Venezuala's unmanned aerial vehicles most likely will be used for internal defense and probably won't be armed.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 12, 2012
The department is working with the FAA to develop tracking and collision-avoidance technologies to enable more domestic unmanned flights.
- By Henry Kenyon
- Mar 09, 2012
Screws holding a Line Replaceable Unit in the unmanned aerial vehicle apparently shook loose during a mission over Eastern Afghanistan making it uncontrollable.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 08, 2012
A task force of an Army aviation brigade for the first time deployed to a training scenario with its own unmanned aircraft system troop organic to it.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 07, 2012
The Cheetah, part of the agency's research into all-terrain robots, has just won the land speed record for legged robots.
- By Henry Kenyon
- Mar 07, 2012
Air Force officials have told the House Appropriation Committee's defense subcommittee that the service isn't sure what it will do with the money it saves by cutting the RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned aircraft program.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 07, 2012
The five-pound robot can be used for building clearing, provides multi-dimensional situational awareness.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 06, 2012
The MQ-9 Reaper UAV might be as much as two to six times more expensive than the military aircraft it's compared with.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 02, 2012
AAI, CSC and Insitu have each been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contract for unmanned aircraft intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 02, 2012
The Navy has deflated its MZ-3A blimp, the Army’s airship has had development roadblocks and the Air Force may ground one of its large blimps.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 02, 2012
The first developmental MFAS radar is destined for the Navy's MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance unmanned aircraft system.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 01, 2012