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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action The US Air Force’s premier killer drone could get a lot more dangerous if the flying branch agrees to upgrades proposed by the robot’s manufacturer. California drone-maker General Atomics has figured out ways to nearly double the flight time of the MQ-9 Reaper by adding fuel pods, longer wings and stronger landing gear.
The US Navy is building a fleet of mine-hunting ships that investigators say aren’t all that hot at finding mines. So in the coming years, those ships are going to get drone supplements to dive deep below the sea to spot the underwater weapons. Think of ‘em as pairs of robotic glasses.
To celebrate the Immortal Perfect Rocket Glory Leadership of dictator Kim Jung-un, North Korea threw itself a parade. It consisted of goose-stepping soldiers and new weapons, including a fat new ICBM.
The MQ-8 Fire Scout, an unmanned helicopter used for reconnaissance work by all branches of the US military, made news this week when the US Navy grounded its Fire Scout aircraft after a pair of recent crashes. The current machines are unarmed, but by 2013, a planned weapons upgrade will make them first sea-based, armed drone helicopter in the Navy’s arsenal.
When you watch X-Games aerial footage, you think, “Wow that must’ve been shot from a helicopter with a badass camera.” Now take a look at this video of gnarly stunts. It cost a fortune to make right? Wrong.
The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon is looking at the Cocos (and Keeling) islands in the remote Indian Ocean as a possible new base for its Global Hawk unarmed/high-altitude drones. However, PM Julia Gillard says there’s been no progress on the matter since US president Obama was in Australia last November for an agreement to increase the US military presence.
Sandia National Laboratories cooks up some of the craziest new technologies you’ll ever see — and some you’ll never see. That’s the fate of a secret method for driving drones with nuclear power, abandoned by its creators.
In ye olde days, when pirates wore black and swung cutlasses, they’d take to the high seas to avoid the authorities. The Pirate Bay is going to go one better, taking to the high skies by putting its servers up in the arrrr… erm… that is, air.
The internet is becoming ripe with production teams trying to outdo each other with amazing copter-camera rig videos. This one might take the cake. Not only does it feature a RED Epic camera and some skilled piloting, but it features Ninjas going berserk on each other in barren factory apocalypse land. That’s just a recipe for success.
