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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 April 29, 2010 Rich Smith |
What's Next for Northrop? After a change in HQ, a change in stock ticker?  |
The Motley Fool February 3, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing: Can't Join 'Em? Beat 'Em! Boeing may be top o' the heap in commercial airliners and military transports, and it may even do a decent job on helicopters. But when it comes to the next big thing in aeronautics -- unmanned aerial vehicles the company's looking like a bit of an also-ran.  |
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 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 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.  |
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 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 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 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 9, 2010 Rich Smith |
L-3 Adds One And ups its game in UAVs.  |
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 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 August 24, 2011 Rich Smith |
Budget Deficit? What Budget Deficit? The Pentagon has plenty of money for new toys.  |
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 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 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).  |
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.  |
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 29, 2010 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Just how good can UAVs get?  |
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 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 August 27, 2009 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying this Thing? Special Report Newsflash: Mainstream media discovers unmanned aerial vehicles or drone aircraft.  |
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.  |
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 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.  |
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.  |
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 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 March 12, 2007 Rich Smith |
AeroVironment Lifts Off The unmanned aerial vehicle maker's superb results revive this fallen IPO star. Investors, take note.  |
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 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 November 2, 2004 Seth Jayson |
Boeing's Defense Scores Results are strong from the military side, but the stock looks played out.  |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2007 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: A Trend at Textron? In advance of third-quarter earnings, analysts expect defense contractor Textron to remain profitable.  |
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.  |
National Defense May 2013 Dan Parsons |
Worldwide, Drones Are in High Demand The U.S. military may be the most high-profile owner and operator of unmanned aircraft, but it is far from the only customer of the controversial vehicles.  |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Lockheed's Latest Skunk Smells Sweet What separates the Polecat from past projects, and makes it so interesting from an investor's perspective, is that the UAV was manufactured from "printed" parts rather than traditional machine-tooled components.  |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Rich Smith |
Textron Could Double Down on This Deal The Afghan army aims to acquire armored vehicles.  |
The Motley Fool July 10, 2009 Rich Smith |
Is Your Portfolio Bulletproof? Here are six defense stocks for it that are.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Eric Bleeker |
Can Foreign Sales Keep Boeing Growing? Where's Boeing generating its sales?  |
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Joint-Service Focus Shapes UAV Roadmap The Pentagon is working on a new roadmap for unmanned aerial vehicles to accommodate the rapid growth in UAV programs seen in the past several years.  |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Rich Smith |
AeroVironment: Good Kitty After soaring 10% over the course of the past week, shares of unmanned aerial vehicle maker AeroVironment have finally settled on a cruising altitude near an all-time high.  |
The Motley Fool November 7, 2008 Rich Smith |
In Defense of Obama Given conventional wisdom, which suggests that Republicans would be more favorable to defense-industry companies, what might the effects be from Obama's administration?  |
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
The Navy's Fighter-Plane-Size UAV, the X-47B, Is Unveiled in California Yesterday, Northrop Grumman unveiled its first completed X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System. This giant UAV could soon be one of the most lethal unmanned aircraft in the U.S. military.  |
National Defense October 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Unmanned Aircraft Makers Look Overseas for New Markets Unmanned aerial vehicles have unquestionably been one of the biggest success stories for the U.S. military on battlefields over the past decade. Can U.S. manufacturers can capitalize on the game-changing technology and expand their customer base internationally?  |
The Motley Fool June 16, 2011 Rich Smith |
Making War Safe for Robots Unless defense companies figure out a way to make UAVs survivable in contested airspace, the whole darn shootin' match could be rendered obsolete.  |
National Defense April 2007 Robert H. Williams |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Refueling Accomplished The Air Research Laboratory and Boeing's Phantom Works have demonstrated that unmanned aerial vehicles can be refueled in the air.  |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2009 Rich Smith |
Textron: The Original Bad Bank If only they'd stick to what they do well.  |