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A 38-foot drone boat that once spent 192 hours alone at sea came up behind a float towed by a Navy ship off Virginia, pushed a fuel probe into it, took on 400 gallons over dozens of hookups and let go each time, and somebody was steering the probe on every one
7+ hour, 4+ min ago (513+ words) Sep 6, at 4:30pm ET The Navy has spent a couple of years selling drone boats on endurance. Eight days at sea, 400 nautical miles offshore, nobody aboard and no chase boat behind. Then you ask what happens when the tank runs low,…...
Aevum's Sleek Space Launch Drone Turns Heads at Long Beach Airport
7+ hour, 14+ min ago (346+ words) At eighty feet long and with a wingspan of sixty feet, the Ravn X is a huge autonomous aircraft said to pack two afterburning turbofan engines that allow high subsonic flight up to an altitude of 60,000 feet. At maximum velocity,…...
Israel’s Cockroach Drones: The Next Generation of Almost Invisible Warfare
10+ hour, 34+ min ago (464+ words) Among the most intriguing areas is the development of robotic cockroaches and insect-like crawlers. Nature provides engineers with designs that have evolved over millions of years. Birds offer highly efficient flight; bats provide models for manoeuvrability and operation in darkness;…...
This Startup Is Using Drones To Change The Weather For Solar Farms - BGR
11+ hour, 18+ min ago (681+ words) This Startup Is Using Drones To Change The Weather For Solar Farms bgr.com This Startup Is Using Drones To Change The Weather For Solar Farms If you've just built a new solar farm, the last thing you want are…...
A 250-pound drone keeps working through 30-foot seas that would send a survey ship back to port, and the only moment weather can touch it is when it surfaces every six hours to talk, so if the pickup boat cannot come out it lands on the bottom and sleeps
16+ hour, 5+ min ago (274+ words) Sep 6, at 7:30am ET If the weather turns, the robot lands on the bottom and goes to sleep. One number I am skipping: NOAA’s page gives the cruise speed two different ways inside the same sentence, so I am leaving speed…...
Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 8863: Distributed Mixed-Power Fixed-Time Cooperative Guidance for Multiple Aircraft with Terminal Line-of-Sight Angle Constraints
15+ hour, 9+ min ago (429+ words) Cooperative interception by multiple aircraft requires coordination of physical event times and terminal line-of-sight (LOS) directions under strongly coupled three-dimensional motion. A limitation of predictor-based designs is that agreement of estimated terminal times is often interpreted as simultaneous interception without…...
HoverAir X1 Pro Max aims to make 8K aerial video portable
17+ hour, 17+ min ago (431+ words) HoverAir’s X1 Pro Max is drawing fresh attention as compact cameras move closer to the drone market. Geeky Gadgets reviewed the model on September 4 and highlighted its 8K recording. HoverAir’s official product page lists a 193-gram aircraft and 8K video at 30 frames per second....
A 39-foot drone boat that used to drive explosives into the sides of Russian warships now carries 18 nine-pound interceptors standing upright in boxes on its deck, and a pilot as far as 1,240 miles away flies each one into whatever comes in over the sea
17+ hour, 34+ min ago (329+ words) Sep 6, at 6:00am ET The biggest hull on the river that day was brand new. UFORCE, the Ukrainian-founded company behind the Magura drone boats, picked the parade to unveil the Magura MV11, and this one breaks with the family business. The earlier…...
The Austin company building long-range autonomous cargo planes
18+ hour, 1+ min ago (257+ words) There is a company in Austin, Texas flying cargo aircraft with no pilot on board and nobody on the ground holding a joystick either. It is called Skyways, started in 2017 by a former Google engineer named Charles Acknin. The aircraft…...
Laser Weapons: US Develops 500kW Systems, Israel Leads
19+ hour, 18+ min ago (204+ words) American defense giant Lockheed Martin is testing unprecedented 500-kilowatt laser systems, but Israel has already delivered operational directed-energy weapons to its military for active defense Israeli laser weapon - Rafael, Elbit, Defense Ministry The disclosure came as Lockheed Martin announced a…...