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UAV soars past endurance record

UAV soars past endurance record

By Doug Page As the aviation adage goes, all take-offs are optional but all landings are mandatory. Landings just became a lit ...

Navy to order more V-22 Ospreys

Navy to order more V-22 Ospreys

By Yamil Berard Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH, Texas — Bell Helicopter is expected to get an order for 99 more V- ...

British army's tank-bulldozer hybrid is amazing

By Andrew Tarantola Gizmodo It's the realization of every 7-year-old boy's dream—a bulldozer on a tank chassis with a machine gun. Known as the Terrier, this ditch-digging combat engineer vehicle is as adaptable as its canine namesake. The Terrier is a remotely-operable armored combat engineer vehicle built for the British Army's Royal Engineer corps by BAE Systems as a faster, better-armored replacement for th ...

Army’s new robotic bird drone is so realistic it gets attacked by hawks

By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times A robotic bird created for the U.S. Army for use as a miniature spy drone is so convincing that it has been attacked by hawks and eagles, according to researchers.  The Robo-Raven, as the solar-powered, remotely piloted surveillance aircraft is called, was designed and built at the University of Maryland’s Maryland Robotics Center — an interdisciplinary research establishme ...

Video: Military drone nearly hits Afghan passenger plane

The Daily Mail Classified footage of an out-of-control drone narrowly missing an Afghan passenger plane carrying 100 people has caused outrage in Germany.  The video, filmed from onboard the unmanned German Luna drone as it flew over Afghanistan, shows it missing the plane by about two metres. It has caused fury in Germany as debate rages about the Government's new order of drones. Critics have seized on the dramatic ...

Navy to phase in flame-resistant coveralls

By Cindy Clayton The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK, Va. — The Navy says it will develop flame-resistant coveralls that will offer sailors a more protective alternative to their current highly flammable working uniform. U.S. Fleet Forces and Pacific Fleet will continue to educate afloat commands on the risks of current uniforms and continue to educate sailors on methods of minimizing the risk of injuries in shipboard fires, accor ...

2 plead guilty in $18M Navy kickback scheme

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The admitted leader of a kickback scheme that cost the U.S. Navy $18 million has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and other charges in federal court in Rhode Island. Ralph Mariano also pleaded guilty to theft of government property and tax evasion on Thursday after his girlfriend, Mary O'Rourke, pleaded guilty to theft of government property in the same case. Prosecutors say Mariano used his position ...

Army’s fingerprint and iris databases head for the cloud

By Spencer Ackerman Wired The next time U.S. soldiers snap a picture of your eye or scan your face, they’re likely to store all that personal, physical data in the cloud. The Army’s Intelligence command recently awarded a sole-source contract to bring the classified Defense Cross-Domain Analytical Capability, a database storing various kinds of security-relevant information the Army collects, onto the proverbial &ldq ...

Terminate killer robots: UN expert calls for ban

The Globe and Mail A UN expert called Thursday for a global moratorium on the development and use of armed robots that can select and kill targets without human command. “War without reflection is mechanical slaughter,” said Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. “A decision to allow machines to be deployed to kill human beings worldwide – whatever w ...

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