Rise Of Robot Boats: How The Navy Might Hunt Sea Mines
Filed under: SeaLAS VEGAS: "Keeping the sailor out of the minefield," the Navy's new mantra for mine warfare, means sending the robots in. As part of an annual exercise in July called "Trident...
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Drone Strikes: 'Least Horrible' Choice In Pakistan, Yemen
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyWASHINGTON: In lawless, inaccessible regions of the world, drone strikes are America's least-worst option for pursuing terrorists, a panel of experts agreed today --...
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US Foreign Military Sales Top $65 Billion
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyWASHINGTON: US foreign military sales are growing so fast the Pentagon can't keep its PowerPoint slides updated -- and they may well grow still more if a Defense...
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Eye On Speed, Navy Minesweepers Take Cues From NASCAR
Filed under: SeaPANAMA CITY, FLORIDA: Minesweeping and "fast" are two words you'd normally be nervous about hearing in the same sentence. But as the Navy looks to new technologies to remedy its...
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Run Silent, Go Deep: Drone-Launching Subs To Be Navy's 'Wide Receivers'
Filed under: SeaWASHINGTON: This Saturday the Navy will christen its newest nuclear-powered submarine, the $2.6 billion USS Minnesota at the Newport News shipyard in Virginia. Countless movies have...
View ArticleHow To Catch A UAV And Put It In A Box; One Man Needed
Filed under: Air, LandGILLIAM COUNTY, OREGON: Sometimes in this business, you get to see something that's just plain neat. In this case, it was the ScanEagle (one word), a mini-drone built by Boeing...
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Drones Fly Into Postwar Storm: Insitu Faces Shrinking DoD Budget, ITAR, FAA
Filed under: AirGILLIAM COUNTY, OREGON: This isolated test site in rural Oregon is where Boeing subsidiary Insitu takes its drones "to torture them," said site manager Jerry McWithey. Temperates soar...
View ArticleAir Force Launches Robot Space Plane, X-37B -- But What's It For?
Filed under: Intel & CyberAt 1:03 pm today, the US Air Force launched a robotic space plane that can stay in orbit for over a year. That's good news for the nation's troubled space program. The...
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Flexible Forces Plus New Drone, Cyber, & Climate Policies Top 2013 Wish List
Filed under: Intel & Cyber, Strategy & PolicyAs 2013 hurtles towards us, AOL Defense has asked the experts on our Board of Contributors to forecast the key defense issues of the coming year. We...
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Army Quests For Holy Grail: The Elusive Armed Aerial Scout
Filed under: LandWASHINGTON: Army aviation leaders thought they had a plan to start developing a new Armed Aerial Scout all teed up for the vice chief of staff's approval last month. But Gen. Lloyd...
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Army Aviators Face New Threats With Old Helicopters: Drones, Tactics Key
Filed under: LandNATIONAL HARBOR, MD: Many new threats, but few new weapons to meet them. That's what the cash-strapped future holds for the entire Army, but especially for the service's most expensive...
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Retired Lt. Gen. Deptula: Drones Best Weapons We've Got For Accuracy,...
Filed under: Air Dave Deptula, the first general charged with overseeing drones and the Air Force general in command of the Air Operations Center when the first Predator fired a Hellfire missile, steps...
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Navy Cyber Chief: Budget Crunch Will Drive Innovation, Force Jointness
Filed under: Intel & Cyber, Sea WASHINGTON: Since 9/11, the armed services have made great strides in applying information technology to warfare -- but their implementation to date has relied on...
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War Or Peace, Drones Market Will Grow, Especially For Infantry
Filed under: Air, LandTYSON'S CORNER, VA: With the wars that spawned the drone revolution subsiding, if not entirely ending, the U.S. armed services are taking stock of what they've learned and sorting...
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Love Letters To Robots: Why Marines Extended K-MAX In Afghanistan (EXCLUSIVE)
Filed under: Land, SeaHalf the US forces in Afghanistan may be coming home, but K-MAX, the little unmanned helicopter, will stay until the end. A pair of the remote-controlled cargo choppers arrived in...
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Raytheon Sonar, SAIC Drone Ship Could Transform Anti-Sub Warfare
Filed under: SeaAnti-submarine warfare has given rise to some of the best war movies -- "Run Silent, Run Deep;" "The Hunt For Red October" and "Das Boot" come to mind. The romance of the terror of...
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Navy Will Send Prototype Laser Weapon To Persian Gulf: Adm. Greenert
Filed under: SeaNATIONAL HARBOR: The Navy will send a prototype laser weapon to the troubled Persian Gulf for a roughly year-long test deployment starting "less than a year from now," the Chief of...
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