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• Who Are You Calling Geek, Journo-boy?

  
  Neptunus Lex — Authority: 621
  Strategy page rubs salt in it : The U.S. Air Force has a morale problem with its combat pilots. The issue is lack of action for the pilots. That, plus the increased use of unmanned aircraft, and the very real prospect that the age of the manned combat aircraft may be coming to an end. This is made worse with ...
  4 days ago

• The Impending Collapse of Manned Airpower

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) From New Wars: If you thought the recent knife fights over the F-22 Raptor fighter cancellation was tough, you haven’t seen anything comparable as the massive Joint Strike Fighter program implodes under the weight of immense costs in the next decade. At least, that is yours ...
  5 days ago

• US Navy Chief Favors Speeding Up Unmanned Programs

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  MAYPORT, Fla. (Dec. 10, 2008) The guided-missile frigate USS McInerney (FFG-8) embarks an MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned air vehicle. This is the first time a Fire Scout has deployed with the U.S. Navy ship. Fire Scout will assist McInerney during its next counter illicit trafficking deployment to Latin America. (U.S. Navy ...
  1 week ago

• Carrier UCAVs: The Return of UCAS

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 566
  UCAS-D concept (click to view full) In January 2006, DID noted the uncertain future of the J-UCAS program , which aimed to create Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV) for the USAF and Navy that could approach the capabilities of an F-117 stealth fighter. Boeing’s X-45C was set to face off against Northrop ...
  1 week ago

• Land like Top Guns?

  
  Neptunus Lex — Authority: 621
  The title of this Wired article about the X-47 UCAS technology demonstrator tickled my funny bone just a little bit: (The) tailess, flying wing planform of the X-47B comes with some inherent stability and low speed flying issues that make the take off and landing from an aircraft carrier a real engineering ...
  1 week ago

• UAV Drone Swarms Are Now Being Tested

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  NAVAIR And Augusta Demo Operations Of Multiple Swarms Of UAVs And Sensors -- Space War The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) recently demonstrated autonomous operations by multiple "swarms" of unmanned air and ground vehicles, unattended ground sensors, video cameras and other devices linked together in an ...
  1 week ago

• US drone strikes may break international law: UN official

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 148
  US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UNs top investigator of such crimes said Tuesday.
  1 week ago

• Germany Leases Israeli Herons for Afghanistan

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 566
  IAI’s Heron-TP (click to view full) Germany has just added itself to the list of countries leasing UAV services for the Afghan conflict, by signing a contract with Rheinmetall Defense and their partners at Israel Aerospace Industries to provide an unspecified number of Heron UAVs as the SAATEG ( System zur ...
  1 week ago

• LTM Gets $25.8M Order to Support the Fleet Readiness Center East

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 566
  LTM in Havelock, NC received a $25.8 million modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract (N00421-01-D-0101) to support the Fleet Readiness Center (FRC) East at Cherry Point, NC. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) in Patuxent ...
  1 week ago

• What If The F-22 Was Smaller, Unmanned & Had 2 Noses?

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  From the DEW Line: Has anybody heard of the Sabre Warrior UCAV? This video has been on YouTube since May 2008, but hasnt received nearly the attention it deserves. Only one reference to the Sabre Warrior has appeared in print, and that was about a decade ago. An Associated Press story on April 17, 1999, quotes ...
  2 weeks ago

• Israeli-Turkish Relations Straining Defense Ties

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 566
  Turkish M-60T Sabra (click to view larger) Global weapon sales are always subject to political influences. For many years, Turkey and Israel have maintained a close defense relationship that extended to training in Turkey and large procurement deals. Turkey’s $688 million buy of Israeli upgrades to create 170 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Global Hawk UAV Prepares for Maritime Role (updated)

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 566
  RQ-4A Global Hawk (click to view full) Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV has established a dominant position in the High Altitude/ Long Endurance UAV market. While they aren’t cheap, they are uniquely capable. During Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the system flew only 5% of the US Air Force’s high ...
  2 weeks ago

• Russian Police to Buy Two Unmanned Israeli Drones

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  A senior police official said on Thursday that the Russian Interior Ministry will buy two Israeli-built unmanned aerial vehicles in 2010. Maj. Gen. Vladimir Lukyanov, head of the Interior Ministry Logistics Directorate, said the Israeli UAVs would be used for “special operations.” He said the ministry would buy ...
  2 weeks ago

• DCGS Worldwide Conference 2009 is next week

  
  Shepherd's Pi — Authority: 454
  US Joint Forces Command is sponsoring next week’s third annual DCGS Worldwide Conference in Virginia Beach, and I’m looking forward to participating on a great panel. If you don’t know much about the world of the ”Distributed Common Ground/Surface System,” you can find some slightly dated background ...
  2 weeks ago

• UAV Anxiety: Losing Touch with Distant Drones

  
  The DOD Energy Blog — Authority: 416
  Thanks to Peter Reed and Stephan Tremble for this. Youll recall how I drone on about the fuel demand implications of a global sky filled with DOD UAVs 24/7/365. Boring, right? Well, bet you hadnt thought of this energy-related risk (below) ... I certainly didnt !!! During "lost link" episodes, when communication ...
  2 weeks ago

• EuroHawk UAV Finally Goes Global

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  From Popular Mechanics: Can a single unmanned aerial vehicle save the NATO alliance? Last week, German military brass and Northrop Grumman officials unveiled the EuroHawk, a UAV that performs long-endurance signal intelligence missions at more than 50,000 feet. (EuroHawk is an adapted Global Hawk, which the U.S. Air ...
  2 weeks ago

• China Designs Indigenous UAV Stealth Fighter, And Bootlegs Some US Models

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  Chinas Dark Sword UAV Stealth Fighter via Defense Professionals From Popular Science: When I hear the phrase "knock-off Chinese products", I usually think of either the bootleg DVDs I get on the subway or the cheap electronics I get in Midtown. But a new report in Defense ...
  3 weeks ago

• Paradigm Shift

  
  Neptunus Lex — Authority: 621
  Esquire catches up with the Reaper : Every so often in history, something profound happens that changes warfare forever. Next year, for the first time ever, the Pentagon will buy more unmanned aircraft than manned, line-item proof that we are in a new age of fighting machines, in which war will be ever more ...
  3 weeks ago

• UAV Revolution update

  
  The DOD Energy Blog — Authority: 416
  Fresh from a great lecture last night on exponential rates of improvement in information systems by futurist Ray Kurzweil , and only 2 days remove from a post on the revolution in the performance and use of UAVs, I get a note in my inbox this morning. Its a press release announcing a new small UAV endurance record ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weve Seen the Future, And Its Unmanned

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  Through these screens, from thousands of miles away, the pilots often operate more like snipers than fighter pilots, observing targets for days, even weeks. They follow the insurgents lives. They know them. Dan Winters From Esquire: Every so often in history, something profound happens that changes warfare ...
  3 weeks ago

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