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Monster Machines: Who Built This Mysterious Spy Drone Captured By Syrian Rebels?

The situation in Syria is getting worse by the hour. France and the UK have both confirmed Assad’s use of Sarin gas against rebel-held towns, Hezbollah fighters have jumped in to the regime’s defence, and drones are falling out of the sky at an alarming pace, including this one.

11 June 2013

Science

Monster Machines: The Robo Raven Is So Lifelike, It Fools Bird Brains

We’ve been trying to create robots that mimic natural bird-flight for years, but they’ve only ever achieved a crude imitation. This is largely because, unlike the robots, real birds can move their wings independently.

31 May 2013

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Monster Machines: This Is The Drone Shot Down By Somali Insurgents

The Twitter feed for Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab lit up on May 27, publishing photos of aircraft wreckage and extolling the virtues of the group’s fighters, who, after several hours of shooting, brought down an unmanned drone near the town of Buulo Mareer. The Pentagon’s confirmation that it did lose the UAS, however, raises more questions than it answers. Why was the drone there in the first place?

25 May 2013

Science

Monster Machines: The SkyRanger Flies In The Face Of Inclement Weather

Quadcopters have become a popular choice for aerial surveillance tasks, in both the public and private sectors, thanks to their portability and ease of use. The problem is their diminutive nature also limits where and when they can fly — high winds can knock them clear out of the air. The new SkyRanger sUAS, however, is powerful enough to lift off in conditions that would ground other drones.

15 May 2013

Gadgets

This Liquid Hydrogen UAV Just Flew For Two Days Straight

In 2009, the Office of Naval Research’s super-endurance drone, the Ion Tiger, flew for a record 23 hours, 17 minutes — the longest ever for a fuel cell-powered UAV. But late last week, the ONR demolished its own record with a 48-plus hour foray into the great blue yonder.

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First Video Of The First Drone Ever Launched From A Carrier

You are about to witness an historical event: the first drone ever launched from an aircraft carrier. In a few decades, when autonomous drone planes battle each other in the skies, fire missiles at drone troops and battleships, humanity will look back at this day as the true beginning of total drone warfare.

14 April 2013

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Highly Autonomous ‘Taranis’ Stealth Drone To Be Tested In South Australia Later This Year

Turns out Australia isn’t a bad place to test your secret, supersonic drones! Well, at the very least BAE Systems is keen to put its unmanned “Taranis” stealth UAV through its paces by scooting around the atmosphere above Woomera in South Australia.

12 April 2013

Gadgets

Tony Abbott Wants Australia To Have A Billion-Dollar Drone Program, But Why?

If I had $1 for every time Tony Abbott had said “stop the boats” in the last four years, I’d probably have enough cash to fund his latest proposal: he wants to buy seven UAV drones to scour the Australian coastline for illegal boat arrivals at a cost of $1.5 billion.

23 March 2013

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The Drone Is A Lie: How UAV Technology Grew Into Urban Legend

Drones are fictional, Adam Rothstein says. “They are a cultural characterisation of many different things, compiled into a single concept.” I think this is persuasive and useful, conceptually, so let this be the assumption from which the rest of the argument proceeds — an expansion on one I’ve briefly explored before.

21 March 2013

Gadgets

Here’s A Drone Flying Between Two Tesla Coils

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you sent a quadrotor enclosed in a metal cage soaring between two Tesla coils? Of course you have. Here lies your answer in all its highly dangerous, lightning-spewing, nightmare-inducing glory.

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