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Popular Mechanics December 28, 2009 Michael Belfiore |
The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics.  |
National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Reaper Drones Accomplishing Traditional Fighter Jet Missions Since they were first deployed as reconnaissance and attack aircraft, the Predators have been credited with helping to change the tide in counterinsurgency operations.  |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2010 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Just how good can UAVs get?  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
Dawn of the unmanned era While the U.S. military has used remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) since the Vietnam War with mixed results, recent combat action in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq has proven the utility of military unmanned systems.  |
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons |
Air Force F-35s, Drones May Square Off in Budget Battle Unmanned aerial vehicles have become a potent portion of the U.S. Air Force inventory and an indispensable weapon in the global war on terror.  |
National Defense August 2006 David Axe |
Clouds on the horizon for pilot-less bombers After years of steady growth in funding, development and operational use, unmanned aerial vehicles have begun to rival -- and, in some cases, exceed -- the capability of manned aircraft.  |
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Future Remotely Piloted Aircraft Will Do More Than Surveillance Military leaders are beginning think about concepts for the third-generation UAVs. In the future, they will want the drones to do a lot more than peer down on adversaries.  |
National Defense May 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Technology Upgrades Give Edge to Ground-Attack Pilots A-10 jets will soon see an upgrade in technology.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 J.R. Wilson |
The evolution of UAV avionics Success of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and development of new platforms for information, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has led to some significant advances in small-scale avionics systems.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 David Schneider |
Drone Aircraft: How the Drones Got Their Stingers Unmanned aerial vehicles come of age  |
Popular Mechanics March 2010 Joe Pappalardo |
The Future For UAVs in the U.S. Air Force The next-generation aircraft envisioned by the Air Force, and modeled in the illustration opposite, would be able to dodge enemy radar, swap payloads for multiple kinds of missions and use sophisticated onboard sensors to prevent collisions with other UAVs and manned airplanes.  |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Dan Radovsky |
Drones: More Than a Buzzword for Boeing Boeing's gamble in unmanned aircraft may pay off ... one day.  |
Popular Mechanics May 2002 Jim Wilson |
Flexible Flier The Joint Strike Fighter puts the best of every 20th century warplane into one nimble and stealthy package...  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 J.R. Wilson |
UAVs Poised to Take the Next Step Into Combat The future of continued U.S. air superiority will involve a large contingent of armed UAVs and a new generation of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), flying missions that manned attack aircraft previously flew, often in joint missions under the control of fighter-bomber pilots.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John McHale |
UAV Market Shows Strong Growth Through Next Decade The market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) appears to be growing steadily over the next ten years because of the successful deployment of these pilotless aircraft in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, market analysts say.  |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2009 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying this Thing? Special Report Newsflash: Mainstream media discovers unmanned aerial vehicles or drone aircraft.  |
National Defense February 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Army to Air Force: We Won't Give Up Our Surveillance Aircraft A second turf war over control of unmanned aerial vehicles is underway after sharp criticism from a senior Air Force general who said the Army is not efficiently deploying its fleet of medium-sized remotely piloted aircraft.  |
National Defense July 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Surveillance Drone Operators Find Ways to Outsmart Enemy A burgeoning fleet of unmanned aircraft is among the Army's key weapons against Iraq's insurgency. But the technology alone is not enough to gain an edge over this enemy, experts say.  |
National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Predator Ground Stations Need Redesign, Say Pilots The demands for aerial surveillance in Iraq and Afghanistan grow by the day, and that means more Predator unmanned aircraft and pilots are needed.  |
National Defense November 2011 Beidel et al. |
10 Technologies the U.S. Military Will Need For the Next War Examples are faster and quieter helicopters, advanced crowd-control weapons, lighter infantry equipment that doesn't overburden troops, ultra-light trucks and better battlefield communications.  |
National Defense July 2012 Dan Parsons |
Teaming Pilots With Drones Hampered By Technology The Army recently found that the most cost effective solution to replace its scout helicopters was a mix of traditional rotary wing platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles flying alongside to cover more ground in a single mission.  |
National Defense May 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Bombers Will Fly Closer to The Ground in Upcoming Deployment B-1 Lancers will be upgraded with the Sniper advanced targeting pod for better visibility of targets.  |
National Defense December 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Digital Designs and Virtual Tests Continue To Be Subject of Debate To speed up deliveries and cut costs, the U.S. military's newest jet fighter will undergo much of its testing in digital simulations.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller |
A Detailed Look at the Pentagon's $5.4 Billion Plan in 2010 to Develop and Deploy U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications.  |
National Defense February 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Upgrades Will Keep F-15's, F-16's In Combat for Two More Decades The Defense Department and the fighters' overseas customers have a long list of upgrades in the works.  |
BusinessWeek May 15, 2006 Eamon Javers |
Stealth Spending At The Pentagon How the Air Force is keeping the costs of expensive new fighter jets under the radar.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John McHale |
Sensitive and Tireless: High-Endurance UAVs Sense What Men Cannot Sensors for unmanned aircraft are evolving in efficiency and capability as payload designers look for every possible edge in surveillance, combat, and collision avoidance.  |
National Defense February 2013 Dan Parsons |
More Drones Become Helicopter Sidekicks Troops can't seem to get enough of the aerial reconnaissance gathered by manned and unmanned aircraft, which has proven invaluable to them in recent conflicts.  |
National Defense July 2004 Harold Kennedy |
Air Force Seeks to Upgrade Close Air Support Fleet As the Iraqi and Afghan conflicts evolve essentially into ground wars the Air Force is moving to improve its ability to provide close air support, according to the service's top officials.  |
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Jeff Wise |
Civilian UAVs: No Pilot, No Problem You probably haven't yet seen a robot plane overhead. But more are flying all the time, and their promise is such that, like computers, they could move beyond commonplace to ubiquitous.  |
Popular Mechanics July 2006 Jeff Wise |
Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible.  |
Defense Update March 2007 |
Smart Weapons for UAVs The Origins of Weaponized UAVs... Deployment of Weaponized UAVs... Gravity Dropped Munitions for UAVs... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 J.R. Wilson |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Get Ready for Prime Time Government leaders are supportive of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use in non-military applications such as border control, emergency response, law enforcement, and forest fire surveillance.  |
National Defense June 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Northrop Grumman Aims To Retain Grip on Aviation Northrop Grumman Corp. makes a big play to join the ranks of Lockheed Martin and Boeing as one of the nation's top manufacturers of combat aircraft.  |
National Defense February 2009 Matthew Rusling |
U.S. Special Operations Command Weighs Deployment of Armed Drones The Boeing A160T Hummingbird, originally a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, is undergoing a series of tests at a Boeing Co. facility  |
National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
The Future May Belong to Unconventional Designs, Missions Unmanned aerial vehicles spying on enemies may be commonplace above today's battlefields, but there is a future generation of unconventional designs with added functions that, experts predict, almost certainly will displace current drones from their lonely, lofty perches.  |
National Defense July 2011 Eric Beidel |
Efforts Under Way to Harden Unpiloted Aircraft for Contested Airspace Military leaders are beginning to wonder how Predators, Reapers, Hunters, Shadows and the rest will perform in unfriendly skies.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Ben Ames |
Optical sensors light up the battlefield Tomorrow's sensors will be modular, digital, fused, and networked  |
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Aerial Drone Sensor Data Now Linked to Apache Helicopters A new communications link installed on Apache helicopters streams full-motion video into cockpits, which is giving pilots a more complete picture of what's happening in the complex urban landscapes where they fight  |
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel |
Uncertainty, Challenges Mark Future For Military's Unpiloted Aircraft The use of unmanned aerial systems in Iraq and Afghanistan has shown that they are invaluable in uncontested airspace. But questions remain about how the current generation of U.S. drones would fair in unfriendly skies.  |
National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Budget Cuts Force Army Unmanned Aviation to Make Do With What It Has As defense budgets decline, the Army intends to stand pat with four basic unmanned aerial vehicle models, officials said at a recent conference.  |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2008 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Part 3 It's time to catch up with the latest developments regarding unmanned aerial vehicles.  |
National Defense December 2003 Roxana Tiron |
Unmanned Aircraft Adapting To Army Future Force Needs The Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate is testing technologies and concepts that would allow helicopters to remotely control unmanned aerial vehicles.  |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2009 Rich Smith |
Pentagon Unveils Crystal Ball Defense Secretary Gates says that the military needs to start preparing for "the wars we are most likely to fight -- not just the wars we're best suited to fight." Which companies stand to benefit from this?  |
Wired July 2001 Carl Hoffman |
The X Wars Boeing and Lockheed are battling head-to-head to build the strike fighter of the future, a sleek, smart aircraft that will carry tomorrow's Air Force, Navy, and Marines -- if it can fight its way out of the Pentagon...  |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? It seems everywhere you look these days, people are talking about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).  |
Popular Mechanics December 7, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Air Force Acknowledges Secret Stealth UAV A French blog published a photo of the craft, nicknamed the Beast of Kandahar by the secret-aircraft-following community.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 |
In Brief Thales partners with Green Hills Software... U.S. Army helicopter controls UAV via TCDL wireless links... Updated Paveway II laser-guided bombs hit the target... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Reaper Unmanned Vehicle Joins Fighters in Afghanistan The MQ-9 Reaper, the U.S. Air Force's new hunter-killer unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), is flying missions in Afghanistan while being remotely operated by pilots and sensor operators.  |
Wired June 2005 Noah Shachtman |
Attack of the Drones Flying bots rule the skies in combat zones around the globe. Now the battle is on between the joystick jockeys and the fighter jocks.  |