Watch: Dubai police unveil their new ‘hoverbikes’ to zoom over traffic

The U.S. Department of Defense announced plans to develop and field “hover bikes” a few years ago – the Army’s three propeller design began testing in January, and has already seen a shift away from use as a single-soldier mode of transportation, and toward being used as a supply drone that is merely capable of […]

Watch: Marines skip the runway, snatch their drones out of midair

The introduction of drones has led to a number of shifts in the way America’s military conducts both combat and reconnaissance operations.  Drones like the MQ-1 Predator and the MQ-9 Reaper have demonstrated that large-scale drones, comparable in size to many aircraft already employed by the U.S. military, offer a real value to the war […]

Watch: US MQ-9 Reaper Drone Shot Down in Yemen

US Central Command has acknowledged they lost an MQ-9 Reaper drone in Yemen. “We assess that an MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle was shot down in western Yemen on Oct. 1, 2017. This incident is under investigation,” said Maj. Earl Brown, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command. Featured image by US Air Force

Watch: Houthi rebels shoot down U.S. MQ-9 Reaper Drone

According to U.S. Central Command, whose area of operation includes the Middle East, a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone was shot down over Yemen on Sunday, confirming the authenticity of a number of videos that have surfaced on the internet in recent days. We assess that an MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle was shot down […]

Watch: Drone Shot Down with Laser Weapon

Lockheed Martin recorded a significant achievement over the white sands of New Mexico when their Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) prototype laser weapon actually shot down a drone. The Lockheed Martin Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) prototype laser weapon system proved that an advanced system of sensors, software and specialized optics can deliver decisive […]

Drone Hits Army Black Hawk Helicopter Flying Over New York City

With more and more people flying drones these days the odds of one hitting an aircraft is going up. This week it happened in New York when a civilian drone hit a US Army Black Hawk helicopter. Two Blackhawks with the 82nd Airborne out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina were in the city on duty […]

TIKAD: Drone sniper!

The future is here when it comes to modern combat. The use of armed drones is changing everything we thought we knew about warfare in a rapid fashion. TIKAD is a fully robotic weaponry system on an airborne platform. TIKAD uses the delivery of a unique suppression firing and stabilization solution. Duke Robotics team created a unique high-end […]

Iranian drone and U.S. Navy F/A 18 Super Hornet have near miss over the Persian Gulf

An Iranian QOM-1 Drone has reportedly interfered with flight operations aboard the USS Nimitz when it flew to within 100 feet of a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet as it prepared to land on the carrier. According to a Defense Department statement, the Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle executed “unsafe and unprofessional altitude changes in the […]

Watch: US Navy’s “Naviator” quadcopter fly & swim underwater!

It makes perfect sense for the Navy to have a drone that CAN fly and swim right? Well, that is exactly what the Naviator does! At the Office of Naval Research’s annual Science and Technology Expo on Friday in Washington, D.C., a development team from Rutgers University demonstrated the unusual quadcopter, which can swim at depths of […]