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The Motley Fool June 15, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Bets on Black (Ops) Boeing came late to the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) party, but you've got to give these guys credit -- now that they're here, they aim to make a splash.  |
The Motley Fool December 31, 2008 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Part Fin One last update on the development of unmanned aerial vehicles.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing Pushes the Envelope on UAVs If the FAA wants 'em, Boeing's got 'em.  |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2010 Rich Smith |
What's Next for Northrop? After a change in HQ, a change in stock ticker?  |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2008 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Part 4 A look at Raytheon, one of the players in the unmanned aerial vehicles sector.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Rich Smith |
An Open Letter to Boeing Here's what the aerospace giant needs to do to straighten up and fly right.  |
The Motley Fool May 8, 2009 Rich Smith |
"Hey! Who's Flying This Thing?" 2009 Edition This edition of "Hey! Who's Flying This Thing?" takes a peek within the exciting world of flying model airplanes ... that kill.  |
The Motley Fool August 9, 2010 Rich Smith |
L-3 Adds One And ups its game in UAVs.  |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2010 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Just how good can UAVs get?  |
The Motley Fool August 21, 2009 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Revenge Of The Robots Things are evolving fast in the unmanned aerial vehicle business, and they're starting to get just a wee bit dangerous too.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2007 Rich Smith |
Star Wars Lite Two and a half years after they brought you the world's first airborne ray gun, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman still have a few kinks to work out. But how should investors view recent governmental funding cuts?  |
The Motley Fool December 30, 2009 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? (The 2009 Boxed Set) It's been a good year for unmanned aerial vehicles -- and a great year for investing in 'em. Here's an update on who's who and what's what in the exciting world of flying model airplanes that kill.  |
The Motley Fool January 8, 2008 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? The military shows its love for unmanned aerial vehicles by giving AeroVironment permission to begin building its Wasps as fast as humanly possible. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Unmanned aerial vehicles spread wings and take flight around the globe. Invest in this trend today. Move too slow, and it may fly away from you.  |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2011 Rich Smith |
Budget Deficit? What Budget Deficit? The Pentagon has plenty of money for new toys.  |
Popular Mechanics February 3, 2009 Erik Sofge |
Killer Lasers Work, but Are They the Best Defense Against UAVs? Last week, Boeing announced that its Laser Avenger system had shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a one-kilowatt laser. Are energy weapons becoming preferable to an old-fashioned bullet or bomb?  |
The Motley Fool May 29, 2009 Rich Smith |
Say It Ain't So, Boeing The aerospace giant has landed more than $312 million in contracts to lease its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle to the Navy and Marine Corps over the past two years.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 |
Neutralizing Improvised Explosive Devices with Lasers Boeing Integrated Defense Systems demonstrated that the company's Avenger-mounted laser system can neutralize improvised explosive devices (IEDs) currently threatening U.S. troops in war zones.  |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Builds a Laser Tank The Force is strong with this one.  |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Rich Smith |
Lockheed's Laser Clicks Lockheed explains that firing a laser from an airborne Boeing 747 is no easy task. If Congress has its way, neither, apparently, will be sustaining the funding necessary to continue testing of the defense system.  |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2009 Rich Smith |
Lockheed Defenseless? Boeing Busted? Maybe, but there are also winners aplenty in the Pentagon's new budget.  |
The Motley Fool May 20, 2011 Rich Smith |
U.S. Navy Gets a New $2.6 Billion Toy The U.S. Navy has fallen so in love with the Fire Scout remotely piloted helicopter drone that it ordered 168 of them, and offered to pay $2.6 billion.  |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Rich Smith |
Northrop Grumman: More than Just UAVs Northrop Grumman just landed a $432 million contract to build two new E-2D "Advanced Hawkeye" command and control aircraft for the Navy. And this is just the beginning.  |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing Curries Favor in India And they need to, because Lockheed's F-35 is on its way.  |
The Motley Fool October 14, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Is a Jedi Master Boeing has successfully fired the Advanced Tactical Laser from an in-flight Boeing C-130.  |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2011 Rich Smith |
AeroVironment Delivers for DARPA The new Shrike UAV was three weeks in the inventing, three years in the making.  |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2009 Rich Smith |
"Hey! Who's Flying This Thing?" Part Seven. (Yes, really. We're already up to seven.)  |
The Motley Fool July 15, 2009 Rich Smith |
"Hey! Who's Flying This Thing?" Part VIII Where UAVs trump global thermonuclear war and which companies are putting their efforts into the UAV arena.  |
The Motley Fool November 15, 2004 Rich Smith |
Boeing Wields a New Laser According to a Pentagon announcement, the company successfully tests an in-flight anti-missile weapon.  |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2008 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: AeroVironment Warms Up In advance of earnings, analysts wonder how unmanned aerial vehicle maker AeroVironment will wrap up its first fiscal year.  |
The Motley Fool July 24, 2008 Rich Smith |
Boeing Busted Short-term disappointments at Boeing are the stuff of which buying opportunities are made. Don't let this one pass you by.  |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing Bets on Black The nation's second largest defense contractor announced a deal that could preserve its place as a profitable producer of fighter aircraft -- or put it deeply in the red.  |
The Motley Fool February 11, 2008 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Part 2 The military is getting mighty serious about bulking up its robotic air force, and there's money to be made here in the future -- for the contractors, and for their shareholders.  |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2009 Rich Smith |
Is That a Knife in Your Back, Boeing? The first time the Obama administration did a hatchet job on Boeing, it was just business. This time, it feels ... personal.  |
The Motley Fool August 8, 2007 Rich Smith |
Northrop Gains Air Superiority Northrop Grumman signs an important contract with the U.S. Navy to develop Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Keep an eye on Northrop, investors; they may be pulling ahead of competition as the nation's foremost military aircraft maker.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller |
High-power laser on Avenger combat vehicle destroys IEDs in tests A laser weapon mounted on an Avenger combat vehicle destroyed 50 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) like those that kill U.S. service members in Iraq and Afghanistan during September testing, say officials of the Boeing Co., designer of the Avenger high-power laser.  |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing and Lockheed Lock Sights on India The subcontinent nears a decision.  |
The Motley Fool April 22, 2010 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? (The Helicopter Edition) As fast and furious as unmanned, horizontal-flying aircraft have evolved, the big defense story in recent months has been the advances going on in robotic helicopters.  |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2011 Rich Smith |
AeroVironment Could Explode In fact, we can almost guarantee that at least one of its products will.  |
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 Rich Smith |
Raytheon Joins the UAV Race Raytheon has come up with an innovative system for guarding our nation's airports against the threat of shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles.  |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing's Da Bomb Last week, we discussed Boeing's just-in-time landing of a $5.3 billion order for F-18 fighter jets -- big news at the time, but a contract that pales next to the monster deal Boeing just inked to upgrade the Air Force's fleet of B-52 bombers.  |
The Motley Fool February 29, 2008 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: AeroVironment's Pre-Flight Reality Check In its first year as a public company, AeroVironment turned in results that beat expectations in every single quarter. But can this high-tech model-airplane maker repeat the feat in year two?  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Eric Bleeker |
Can Foreign Sales Keep Boeing Growing? Where's Boeing generating its sales?  |
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Military May Be Souring On Laser Weapons The Pentagon's enthusiasm for laser weapons is not what it used to be.  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale |
Laser Weapons, on Target The U.S. military and its partners from industry are meeting major milestones in various programs as they move closer to making laser weaponry a standard part of the U.S. arsenal.  |
The Motley Fool August 17, 2006 Brian Gorman |
Lockheed's Good Offense A proposal for a JSF drone shows the company is well positioned to capture future defense contracts. Investors, take note.  |