The US Office of Naval Research thinks that Marine air-ground task forces are too vulnerable to adversaries flying cheap, small UAS overhead, like the four-pound Raven the Marines themselves used in Iraq. Its answer: outfit Marine ground vehicles with laser guns. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Festo BionicOpter Beats Dragonfly at its Own Game
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With the BionicOpter, Festo has applied the highly complex characteristics of the mechanics of dragonfly flight to an ultra-lightweight flying object at a technical level. Continue reading
Turkey, US Sign Unmanned Aircraft Cooperation Agreement
A statement by the Turkish General Staff about the unmanned aircraft cooperation agreement expressed that the flights in northern Iraq will be “conducted entirely under Turkey’s direction.” Continue reading
“The Role of UAS Research is to Inform Policy”
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be research,” quipped Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, Vice-President for Research at the University of Oklahoma and a member of the National Science Board, as he quoted Albert Einstein during the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Summit in Norman, Oklahoma, this week. Continue reading
