unmanned aerial vehicle

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DARPA has selected the Silent Falcon UAV to test the feasibility of remotely charging an aircraft with a laser for its Stand-off Ubiquitous Power/Energy Replenishment - Power Beaming Demo (SUPER PBD) programme. The Silent Falcon is scheduled to begin testing in January 2019 with the aim of...

This is going to be offered to potential customers as a significantly cheaper alternative to buying a reconnaissance satellite. http://www.janes.com/article/79777/bae-systems-reveals-phasa-35-solar-powered-hale-uav More info here. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/hale-phasa-35-uav/

Here's a question-- right now, UAVs are becoming far more important, to where it's looking like more and more ships will have an organic capability. But to date, that generaly means A. putting a UAV on an aviation ship (carrier) or B. using a helicopter deck. Have there been many studies at...

Hardly a week doesn't go by when I haven't read or heard of one of the U.S. armed services developing and/or deploying some sort of autonomous unmanned vehicle for future armed conflicts. As much as I like reading about all the technological developments that the U.S. and/or other militaries are...

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/u-s-transportation-secretary-anthony-foxx-announces-unmanned-airc

Does anyone have an idea what exact model of drone he is referring to here, is this an upgraded Reaper or something different? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11909488/David-Cameron-promises-to-beef-up-the-SAS-to-take-the-fight-to-Isil.html

The usual crew of retired military and political types are warning that the UK is not able to meet its defence requirements with the present budget and kit. Given the collective expertise on this board what advice would you give the Prime Minister who takes over in May after the election? I...

Hi, here is a solar-powered flying wing recce model of 1965,created by Elmer G. Johnson at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base,as a high speed unmanned vehicle can fly up to 60 miles above the Earth,page 170...

"FAA OKs commercial drone flights over land" by Joan Lowy, Associated Press 1 hour ago June 10, 2014 Source: http://news.yahoo.com/faa-oks-commercial-drone-flights-130015037.html

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/213765.html Iran military downs US spy drone Sun Dec 4, 2011 2:17PMLAST UPDATEAn American RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned reconnaissance aircraft (file photo)A senior Iranian military official says Iran's Army has shot down a remote-controlled reconnaissance drone operated...

Source: http://www.eaa.org/news/2013/2013-06-20_paris-air-show.asp http://www.flaris.pl/mobile/general.html http://twinn.pl/?idd=6&rok=2013&page=0&id=755&poz=ml0

Raytheon delivers electronic jamming capability for Gray Eagle UAS Effort will mark first time Army has capability on unmanned vehicle MARLBOROUGH, Mass., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has delivered two electronic attack payloads in support of the U.S. Army's...

"Economic boom predicted for US civil UAV market" 12 March 2013 - 16:00 by Beth Stevenson in London Source: http://www.shephardmedia.com/news/uv-online/economic-boom-predicted-us-civil-uav-market/ A paper on the economic impact of UAV integration into national US airspace has identified...

Hi there SecretProjects forum members, Long time lurker, first time poster. :) I'm a writer by trade, and I've always had a great interest in military technology—especially military aviation. Obviously, there's a ton of great information here, and I'm really appreciative of so many of the cool...

while reading of Mr. Nozette unfortunate ending... http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/03/sandia_drone.html http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/sand-uav.pdf

Congress passed the FAA bill. http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=82075 "The FAA is also required under the bill to provide military, commercial and privately-owned drones with expanded access to U.S. airspace currently reserved for manned aircraft by Sept. 30, 2015. That...

. I don't know where this really belongs (if at all) anyway, out of interest, Air Britain have (?) released a new book on RAF unmanned aircraft / target drones / recon drones called "Sitting Ducks and Peeping Toms" - I do NOT know if any projected models are included :-...

I wonder what this was .... NYTimes.com July 20, 2011 Lawmaker: Iran Shot Down Unmanned US Spy Plane TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A state-owned news site says Iran has shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane over the Fordo uranium enrichment site in central Iran. The state TV-run Youth Journalists Club...