The CIA Is Not Going To Give Up It`s Drones

Pictured: An armed MQ-9 Reaper (Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson/US Air Force) Targeted Killing: CIA's fleet of 80+ UAVs unlikely to be transfe...

The U.S. Marine Drone Fleet Is Expanding

The RQ-7B Shadow is an unmanned aerial vehicle that was operated by VMU-3 in southwestern Afghanistan. Each Shadow carries a camera, which s...

America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases

A pilot in a remote site at Kandahar Air Field uses a camera pod to remotely steer a Reaper aircraft back into base after a mission. Rick Lo...

What Was On Display At A Drone Trade Show

Global Hawk Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk is the highest-flying of the military’s current fleet of UAVs. With its 116-foot wingspan, it can...

Drones For The U.S. Navy

Northrop Begins Production of MQ-4 for U.S. Navy -- Defense News Northrop Grumman has begun work on the very first MQ-4 Broad Area Maritime ...

How To Regulate And Control The Spread Of Drone Technology

The Global Hawk, an unmanned surveillance aircraft, taxis at an air force base near Adelaide in this April 24, 2001 file photo. Credit: Reut...

For Freshly Graduated UAV Pilots, A New Era Begets A New Set of Wings

UAS-RPA Wings USAF From Popular Science: This week, we heard 24 cadets at the Air Force Academy received the first wings awarded in the ins...

The Present And Future Of Unmanned Drone Aircraft: An Illustrated Field Guide

The Avenger: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems From Popular Science: Inside the wild kingdom of the world’s newest and most spectacular ...

How Israel's Biggest Drone Could Take Out Iranian Nukes

From Popular Mechanics: This week the Israeli Air Force held a ceremony spotlighting the "operational acceptance" of its biggest u...

America's UAV Drone Fleet Is About To Get Larger

A Predator aircraft in a training flight at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nev. The Predators, controlled by pilots on the ground,...

Congressional UAV Caucus Courts Robot Voters

Go Long via Buck McKeon's Flickr From Popular Science: The US Congress has well over 100 caucuses, or groups ...

Name Change For UAV Drones Approved. To Now Be Called Remote Piloted Aircraft (RPA)

A Drone By Any Other Name… -- Reuters The drone that was formerly known as the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a new name — the Remotely P...

The UK's Largest Fully-Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft, Mantis, Completes Initial Flight Trials

From Defense Professionals: Farnborough, UK | BAE Systems has successfully flown the largest fully autonomous unmanned aircraft ever to be b...

A Different Way To Fly

Vertical-Takeoff-And-Landing Excalibur (Photo from Aviation Week ) From Defense News: Small UAV Firm Devises Unconventional Aircraft. Aurora...

Middle East Nations About To Launch A Massive Buying Spree Of UAVs

Photo: The UAV boom is due to their popularity with reconnaissance missions that are either too expensive or tedious for pilots to perform ...

Northrop Grumman Unveils Euro Hawk

From Aviation Week: PALMDALE, Calif. Northrop Grumman will begin acceptance tests on the first Euro Hawk variant of the RQ-4 Global Hawk unm...

The Men And Resources Necessary To Operate America's Fleet Of Drones

A Reaper drone, as used by the CIA and American military in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images The Endless CAP ...

Tube-Launched UAVs Could Be In Air In 2010

From Air Force Times: An unmanned aerial vehicle small enough to launch from a plane or another UAV could be ready for the Air Force as soon...

Boeing’s Best-Selling Aircraft Fits On Your Shoulder

Scan eagle From Autopia: The relatively tiny Scan Eagle family of UAVs may not bring in big bucks for Boeing, but they’re the best-selling a...

Landing Gadget Could Let Drones See Like Pilots

From The Danger Room: One big difference between Army and Air Force drones is that many of the Air Force’s robo-lanes can’t land themselves....