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Over recent years, robotic spy planes and unmanned drones have helped armies around the world take the best decisions for a specific situation on the battlefield. This ability stems from the fact that these aircrafts are perfectly capable of supplying their commanders with live feeds from the hot spot. Now, innovatio... |
21 November 2009
02:13 GMT |
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To military applications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are becoming increasingly indispensable and useful. These aircraft, which are currently flown by remote controls, are able to reach dangerous areas that are deemed too hazardous for human pilots. Their small sizes also make them difficult to detect with convent... |
16 November 2009
03:11 GMT |
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Perhaps the most famous aerospace corporation, Boeing, has come up with a new craft supposed to be able to stay aloft, depending on the altitude, from about ten days to nearly a whole month. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) will be powered by a patented hydrogen fuel system and will have a wide range of applications... |
27 November 2008
06:32 GMT |
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The future of aviation looks bright, aircraft constructors say, in the light of the fact that, next year, a new 1.5 ton aircraft, powered entirely by the sun, will complete a first-of-its-kind test flight. The plane is being built in order to prove that using solar energy to power up airplanes is a sustainable proces... |
18 November 2008
03:18 GMT |
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It has always been difficult for any kind of flying machine to fly close to the ground in crowded environment conditions, meaning close to buildings, pillars, trees or cables. But a group of technicians from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh led by roboticist Sanjiv Singh have managed to build an uncrewed ... |
10 November 2008
11:12 GMT |
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The Pentagon has decided: out with the Northrup Grumman project and in with Manassas Vulture high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle. The Vulture will be used by the Pentagon as a surveillance and communications aircraft, which can be repositioned on an area of interest and fly high enough to capture a wide view image ... |
23 April 2008
07:22 GMT |
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Those of you who have played the game know what I'm talking about. You know, the small UAV's wondering through the buildings and outside, keeping an eye on you at all time, taking pictures, alerting the authorities towards your location when you break the law... You got the idea. Well, as it turns out, the ... |
26 March 2008
05:55 GMT |
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It is the first time when an unpiloted Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle is used in the antarctic continent to gather data of the harsh environment. The UAV was developed by a British-German collaboration between the British Antarctic Survey and the Technical University of Braunschweig, and it has completed successfully al... |
21 March 2008
11:12 GMT |
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The 'bat' is only the latest of the series of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - UAV for short - designed to gather information about enemy sites and urban combat zones, capable of relaying data related to sight, sound and smell back to the command post to be used as intelligence. The 'bat' has been desig... |
14 March 2008
09:36 GMT |
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The future of air combat will make the classical dogfight obsolete. The times of air aces like the Red Baron - the most successful fighter pilot of f World War I, credited with 80 confirmed air combat victories - are gone, and the next flying aces will be unmanned drones, hunting and killing ground enemies while bein... |
22 June 2007
10:45 GMT |
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Are you in pursuit of the big one? Well, here it is. It looks like a fish, but it's not swimming. It's actually flying! Of course fish can fly! HyFish is a cell-powered UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) that's shaped after the ocean's fastest swimmers: the Tuna (ahem). Due to its shape, the Tuna is pr... |
12 April 2007
10:34 GMT |
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Have you ever wanted to see a flying saucer with your own eye? Well, forget about going to New Mexico. You can have your own...that's if you work for the US government of course. It's not made by "ze"Russians, don't worry! British Geoff Hatton, a former hovercraft engineer, had designed a real flying ... |
11 April 2007
09:29 GMT |
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More and more, scientists, militarists, and governments are investing large amounts of resources in an intriguing, futuristic technology - fleets of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).The main reason for investing in UAV technology lies in the replacement of the traditional, open battleground with the urban theat... |
4 April 2007
02:49 GMT |
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