USAF Confirm News Skunk Works Stealth UA...

The U.S. Air Force has confirmed the existence of the “Beast of Kandahar” UAV spotted flying out of Afghanistan in late 2007. The confirmation comes after more pictures came to light on several military and aviation blogs. The jet aircraft known as the RQ-170 Sentinel, developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, is a tailless flying wing with sensor pods faired into the upper...

UK MoD Calls For New Laser Equipped Stea...

In February, Great Britain’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) unveiled its plans for modernizing its military. Similar to the US Military’s Future Combat System program, the new technology plan, to examine a “more cost-effective means of achieving the effects currently provided by manned aircraft and cruise missiles by using new concepts in [UAVs and] unmanned combat air...

Predator UAV Remote Workstation...

Here is a great video clip showing how to remote control the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, and how to blast away a target anywhere in the world, from the comfort of your desk. The video is in fact just a simulation used in training, but this is exactly how the real job is done. Two agents, a pilot and sensor, sitting at a desk, literally playing computer war games, except this game...

iPhone Controls Military Drone...

Former F-18 Hornet Navy Pilot and MIT Professor, Missy Cummings, and her team of 30 students and undergrads, have developed an iPhone app able to control an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or military drone. The aim of the teams work at MIT’s Humans and Automation Lab (HAL), is to improve the unwieldy interactions between machines and their human controllers. In this instance, it...

Remote Control Helicopter With Full-Auto...

There have been a number of autonomous helicopters developed in the past that have proven their worth to the Military. Able only to performing mundane tasks such as surveillance, mine detection, and escort duty they certainly have still been beneficial, but no previous model will quite match a new AutoCopter Gunship developed by Neural Robotics Incorporated, well at least not in fire...

Boeing X-48B Remote Controlled Blended W...

Boeing have been hot press this year following the highly anticipated 787 Dreamliner, despite the huge launch campaign and all the time spent perfecting the Dreamliner, Boeing have still found time to develop and begin testing the new X-48B an unmanned Blended Wing Body Aircraft or BWB. Boeing X-48B UAV In Flight The first ever flight took off on the 20th July from NASA’s Dryden...