Vulture UAV to Glide in the Sky for 5 Years
	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 of the ground beneath it, something which cannot be done with the satellites currently positioned on the Earth’s or ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 07:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Half-Life 2 Inspired Drone Takes to The Streets
	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 game developers were not so far from reality as thought. Such a spy in the sky could be used by the police of Miami in the ne ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 05:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Antarctic UAV Makes Maiden Flight
	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 all the scheduled flights. According to Dr. Phil Anderson from the British Antarctic Survey, or BAS for short, th ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 11:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tiny Spy Plane Looks Like a Bat
	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 designed by the University of Michigan College of Engineering, during a five-year development stage, with a budget of more than 10 ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Dominate The Sky in Future Warfare
	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 being remote controlled from a safe distance, or even capable of taking decisions on their own. More and more scientists, [ADM ... [read more >>]
	22 June 2007, 10:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HyFish, The Tuna-Shaped Aircraft
	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 probably the fastest fish that swims in Earth's oceans (excluding the Sailfish). This is why, Koni Scafroth ... [read more >>]
	12 April 2007, 10:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Terrestrial Flying Saucers Will Be Used for Surveillance
	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 saucer that might soon be used by the US (or other wishfull thinkers) in battlefield&urban survei ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2007, 09:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

UAVs Will Make Fighter Pilots Obsolete?
	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 theater of war. Urban environments - with their mazes of tall buildings, parked cars, residences, alleys and tunnels - crea ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2007, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia