MilitaryArmy Looks to Industry for Innovation in Manned-Unmanned Teaming In keeping with the U.S. Army’s new spirit of outreach to industry, the Service wants to know what the private sector can do to better team drones with manned aircraft. The Army…
MilitaryNew No-Drone Zones Hone DOD Counter-UAS Authority Responding to a request to enhance unmanned aircraft flight restrictions over military bases, the FAA recently made the airspace over three new U.S. Defense Department facilities no-drone zones and extended the restricted…
MilitaryDOD Demands Authority to Destroy Drones in Restricted Airspace Privately owned drones routinely violate restricted airspace over military bases, ships and airfields. The Pentagon wants more authority to shoot them down, Defense Secretary James Mattis told lawmakers Wednesday. The military can disrupt or…
MilitaryNew Lockheed Martin Missiles Used in Combat for First Time in Syria There were 105 weapons fired by U.S., British and French forces against Syria on April 14. Of those, 19 were a new version of the Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) being…
MilitaryF-35Cs Can't Receive Spare Engines on Carriers Without V-22s Without the V-22 Osprey to deliver spare engines, nations buying the naval version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will not be able to deploy them on carriers. No other carrier-based aircraft…
MilitaryF-35 Program Head Says It's Changing to Evolve with Production Status Impending changes to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter management structure are a natural result of the program moving from development to production, according to Joint Program Office Chief Vice Adm. Mat Winter.…
MilitaryUS Military's Vertical Lift Plans Necessitate More Advanced Drones Aside from developing a revolutionary new family of rotorcraft, the U.S. Army’s ongoing Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program includes building a next-generation unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that will fly in formation with…
MilitaryIntel's Show Drones Have Military Brass Worried During the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, a flock of 1,200 commercial drones made by Intel formed a giant snowboarder then swarmed in sync to form various other…
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