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  Cargo UAVs -- Next Step, Pick and Place

  Posted by Graham Warwick 8:51 AM on Mar 19, 2013

  Two Lockheed Martin/Kaman K-Max unmanned cargo helicopters now in Afghanistan are to stay there indefinitely, says a Reuters story confirmed by the US Navy. The aircraft have been ... Read More >>

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  DARPA's New TERN, a Predator on a Frigate

  Posted by Graham Warwick 5:36 PM on Mar 03, 2013

  The US Navy has operated unmanned aircraft from warships since Gyrodyne QH-50 drones carried anti-submarine torpedoes off the flightdecks of destroyers in the 1960s. But they have ... Read More >>

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  VIDEO: Boeing's Phantom Eye -- 2nd-Flight Debrief

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:20 PM on Feb 27, 2013

  Boeing Phantom Works breathed a sign of relief when the Phantom Eye hydrogen-fueled high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft came to a safe stop on the lakebed at Edwards AF... Read More >>

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  Kraken Wakes - DARPA's Deep-Sea Sleepers

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:22 PM on Jan 11, 2013

  Arguing it is costly and complex to send large numbers of warships to forward operating areas - and that the energy and logistics needed to deploy lower-cost unmanned systems over ... Read More >>

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  US Navy Continues to Wrangle With UCLASS Needs

  Posted by Amy Butler 4:26 PM on Jan 09, 2013

  After years of discussion, the U.S. Navy has still not finalized its requirements for its much-desired Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (Uclass) platform.... Read More >>

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  X-47B UCAS-D, Back on Land

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:18 PM on Dec 19, 2012

  Yet another update on the US Navy's X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator - this time unashamedly because I like this picture released by Northrop Grumman. Northrop says... Read More >>

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  VIDEO: Unmanned on Deck -- X-47B Taxis on Truman

  Posted by Graham Warwick 10:44 AM on Dec 11, 2012

  This is quite a sight - the US Navy's Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UCAS-D) taxiing around the flightdeck on the USS Truman while the aircraft car... Read More >>

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  X-47B UCAS-D - Off the Cat, On the Deck

  Posted by Graham Warwick 6:52 PM on Nov 29, 2012

  In the same week, Northrop Grumman's X-47B combat aircraft system demonstrator has arrived on the aircraft carrier deck -- by crane -- and made its first catapult launch -- on land... Read More >>

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  VIDEO: X-47B UCAS Drives by Wireless

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:57 PM on Nov 15, 2012

  How do you maneuver an unmanned aircraft around the carrier deck without a pilot on board? Use a wireless hand controller strapped to your arm. That's what the US Navy is doing dur... Read More >>

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  Hurricane Casualty -- KQ-X Unmanned Refueling Demo

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:18 PM on Oct 12, 2012

  It probably seemed like a good idea at the time, to use Global Hawks owned by NASA and operated under a joint agreement with Northrop Grumman that allows both of them access to the... Read More >>

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