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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.  |
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 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 February 4, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Boeing: Get Real! And get used to it -- the F-35 is coming.  |
The Motley Fool July 26, 2011 Andrew Tonner |
Investor Roundtable: The Best Stocks in the Defense Industry Fools muster their financial forces to battle over the best potential picks.  |
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Fight Begins Over Navy's Armed Drone Program After years of delays, the Navy plans this summer to release a request for proposals for the preliminary design phase for its unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft, called UCLASS. The final RFP is set to be issued in early spring 2014.  |
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 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 June 8, 2009 Rich Smith |
"Hey! Who's Flying This Thing?" Part Seven. (Yes, really. We're already up to seven.)  |
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Rich Smith |
Quick Take: Will Northrop Overrun Aground? While defense contractors work to make manned combat a thing of the past, the Navy earmarks more money to Northrup for an obsolete aircraft carrier.  |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Rich Smith |
Addled Admiral Builds a Robot Navy U.S. Navy Admiral Gary Roughead wants to cut loose on the Pentagon's strait-laced acquisition rules and begin buying cutting-edge tech for the Navy.  |
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 August 5, 2010 Rich Smith |
Look, Up in the Air! Is it a bird? Is it a robot? Heck no! It's a manned fighter jet. Admiral Michael Mullen may believe there's no need for pilots in planes anymore, but some of the biggest names in unmanned-aerial-vehicle building are begging to differ.  |
National Defense June 2006 Jean & Erwin |
For Navy, More Unmanned Aircraft on the Horizon An unmanned combat aircraft that can operate from carrier decks would be of great utility to the Navy, but it appears to be unaffordable, at least for the time being, said a naval aviation expert.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Northrop Grumman to Produce E-2D Advanced Hawkeye for U.S. Navy U.S. Navy officials awarded the contractor a $408 million contract to build three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye carrier-based airborne early warning and battle management command and control aircraft through 2010.  |
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 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 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 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 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 July 29, 2010 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Just how good can UAVs get?  |
The Motley Fool September 22, 2010 Rich Smith |
Core Stock: Lockheed Martin 60 years, 1 trillion dollars. Can't go wrong.  |
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 2, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing Wins! No, still not the KC-X contract. But almost as good. It seems the company that's taken the single greatest lead in unmanned airpower dominance -- at least for now -- is Boeing  |
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 August 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Combat Drone Project Exposes Pitfalls of Joint-Service Programs When the Pentagon quashed a multibillion-dollar Air Force-Navy combat drone program earlier this year, experts contended this was proof that joint service projects are doomed from the get-go.  |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2009 Rich Smith |
B-3, KC-X, F-35 ... Bingo! Defense investors, if you want to know which contractors will prosper in the future, and which ones will perish, listen to what Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in his annual address to the Air Force Association conference.  |
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?  |
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 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.  |
National Defense June 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Vendors Faceoff Over Navy Cargo Aircraft The Navy isn't likely to kick off a competition until 2014, but two rival manufacturers are eager to prove that their aircraft is the best option for flying supplies to carrier strike groups.  |
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 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 February 4, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Northrop: Go Jump in a Lake Or make a bid. It's all the same to us.  |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2011 Rich Smith |
Why Does the U.S. Navy Hate JFK? Poor Huntington-Ingalls. Just four months after its parent company set it adrift, it's already wallowing in debt and burning cash. And now it seems Northrop Grumman abandoned this shipbuilder not a moment too soon.  |
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Navy Awaits Arrival of Powerful New Radar-Equipped Aircraft The Navy's new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft has a powerful new radar.  |
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.  |
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
CNO: Worries About Aviation Industrial Base Overstated Once the Navy begins buying Lockheed-made F-35s, it will no longer purchase Super Hornets from Boeing.  |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Boeing's Ship Comes In Boeing's new contract to build aircraft for the Navy continues its string of positive news. The company's prospects remain good, but investors may want to wait for the shares to descend a bit before piling on board.  |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2011 Rich Smith |
Everybody Hates Lockheed Here's a trillion reasons why.  |
National Defense July 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy to Consider New Ways to Shuttle Passengers, Supplies to Aircraft Carriers The Navy will decide over the next two years how it will modernize its fleet of 35 cargo planes that move passengers and supplies from bases on land to big-deck aircraft carriers at sea.  |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2009 Rich Smith |
India Looks West for Its Defense Yet another big arms sale to India.  |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2009 Rich Smith |
6 Stocks That Never Surrender In a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500, check in on how six defense stocks are doing.  |
National Defense July 2012 Antoine Martin |
Promising Outlook for Navy's Unmanned Aviation The U.S. Navy has ambitious plans to deploy new families of unmanned aircraft over the next decade.  |
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.  |
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 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 May 20, 2011 Rich Smith |
Could Boeing Win this Dogfight? The more we learn about the F-35's performance, the less I think we can count Boeing out.  |
National Defense October 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Navy's New Drones Taking Center Stage The Navy finally is developing its own custom unmanned air systems, with the service planning on fielding four new aircraft in the next few years.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Defense Contractors: We've Got Your Back As Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated plans to cut in excess of $100 billion from Pentagon spending over the next five years, they also try to reassure that they're not out to hurt anyone -- least of all investors.  |