Global Hawk Variants Surpass 100,000 Combat/Operational Support Hours
Northrop Grumman announced Aug. 27 that two U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy Global Hawk and Triton high altitude …
Unmanned Systems
Robot Pair Conduct First Fully Autonomous Mission
X-47B Combined Manned/Unmanned Carrier Operations
The U.S. Navy conducted combined manned and unmanned flight operations testing aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), with an X-47B …
DARPA XS-1 Concept
DARPA video of the XS-1 experimental spaceplane concept. A hypersonic mothership would take a booster to the edge of space, …
DARPA Begins Work on Experimental XS-1 Spaceplane
DARPA has awarded prime contracts for Phase 1 of its Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) project. The agency’s vision is for a …
K-Max Comes Home
The Lockheed Martin/Kaman Aerospace Corporation K-MAX cargo unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has returned to the United States after a successful …
The Year in Special Operations: 2014-2015 | Photos
The Year in Special Operations: 2014-2015 is making its debut at the National Defense Industrial Association‘s 2014 Special Operations Forces …
Black Knight Transformer First Flight
Advanced Tactics Inc. has released a video showing the first flight of their Black Knight Transformer. The flight test was …
Dual-Mode Brimstone UAV Launches a Success
During Operation Odyssey Dawn, Royal Air Force Tornado GR4s struck Libyan regime targets with more than 120 Dual-Mode Brimstones at …
Distributed Battle Management: DARPA Seeks to Manage Increasingly Complex Contested Airspace
Anyone who has seen the 2005 movie Stealth has seen a vision of a unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) fighting …