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Navy Arming Fire Scout Drone Helos
What’s the latest U.S. drone to be armed? The Navy’s MQ-8 Fire Scout helicopter. Northrop Grumman has begun helping the Navy arm the little robo-choppers with the Advanced Precision Kill Weapons...
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The U.S. Is Actually Leaving a Pakistani Drone Base
So, Islamabad is making good on its demand that United States forces leave Shamsi air base, one of several facilities used by CIA drones inside Pakistan. American cargo planes have apparently arrived...
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USAF Sending New Drone To Afghanistan
This is very interesting, just after losing an RQ-170 Sentinel drone to Iran the AIr Force is sending a single, stealthy-ish Predator-C Avenger drone to Afghansistan. The Predator C is made by General...
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Our New Megabase in Afghanistan
So, this is some drone-related news about the Afghan war that we missed. While most media attention has been focused on CIA drone bases in Pakistan, the U.S. last year transformed the remote ex-Soviet...
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Retro Vid: Drones Shooting Air-to-Ground Missiles in the ’70s
In case anyone doesn’t already know it, spy drones have been used in war for decades and this video shows one of the America’s first drones launching an air to ground missile. Yup, this 1972 film clip...
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VIdeo: ATK’s Hatchet
ATK showed off a compact little bomb it’s developing for use on small UAVs at the Navy League’s Sea, Air and Space show in Maryland this week. Dubbed the “Hatchet,” this 60mm munition can be mounted...
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Yemen to Get UAVs From the US
Amid a series of controversial U.S. air strikes against high-level Al-Qaeda officials in the Arabian Peninsula, and renewed military cooperation with Yemen, officials in Sanaa are now expecting to get...
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Report: China developing advanced drone fleet
The U.S. may own the skies now when it comes to drones, but China is fast developing strategic and tactical unmanned aerial vehicles capable of supporting ground, sea and air forces, and also subbing...
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Pentagon S&T strategy emphasizes cyber, space, EW
Pentagon Science & Technology leaders said government, academic and industrial innovators must embrace an investment strategy aimed at advancing key “thrust” areas such as electronic warfare (EW),...
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Navy’s UCLASS Competition Delayed Until Next Year
The start of a formal completion among vendors to build the Navy’s carrier-launched drone has been delayed until sometime in 2016 pending the results of an ongoing Pentagon review, Navy officials said....
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U.S. Supplying Allies With Bombs for Libya Campaign
So a little while ago reports surfaced saying that NATO forces were running out of precision munitions to bomb Libya with, NATO officials quickly denied that rumor and France even started using...
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Release the Hounds! UAVs Strike in Somalia
In case you didn’t see it, the U.S. has unleashed the drones on yet another country, Somalia. Two leaders of the al Shabab terrorist group were wounded in a drone strike there last week, according to...
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Pakistan Boots U.S. From Drone Base
Speaking of drones, this is pretty interesting. Apparently, Pakistan has told the U.S. to abandon a secret desert base inside Pakistan that CIA drones fly out of. This is no doubt more fallout of the...
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The U.S.’ Post 9/11 Weapons Tech
Being part of Military.com, it wouldn’t be right if we here at DT didn’t do something to recognize the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. We figured we’d list off some of the most significant advances in...
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Air Force UAV Controls Infected with Virus
I’m sure you’ve all heard this, but just in case you haven’t, the Internet is abuzz with reports that the Air Force’s UAV ground control systems (GCS) at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., have been...
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USAF Drone Control Virus Overblown
I asked Kevin Coleman, DT’s resident cyber security expert to weigh-in on the keystroke-recording virus that has infected the UAV ground control stations at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. He gave a...
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Gadhafi’s a Mort (Reportedly)
Major news outlets are reporting that ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi has been killed by rebels today. See Military.com for all the latest. And check here soon for a NATO No Fly Zone box...
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The Fight for Libya: A Tech Recap
Now that Gadhafi has been eliminated we thought we’d take a look back at NATO’s military campaign to support the Libyan rebels. As of this writing, NATO has conducted a total of 26,089 sorties,...
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Video: The Remains of Gadhafi’s Last Convoy
Check out the video below the jump that apparently shows the remains of Gadhafi’s last convoy after it was savaged by NATO airstrikes last week. The convoy was hit by a U.S. drone and a French fighter...
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U.S. Expanding Drone Ops With a New African Base
So, the U.S. has opened up a new drone base in Africa to aid in the hunt for terror suspects in places like Somalia. Apparently, the Air Force has built a miltimillion dollar facility to host MQ-9...
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