by admin on February 2, 2016
It looks like the Navy is getting an UAV mid-air tanker. That’s great–it forces the Navy to really incorporate a UAV into the daily grind of carrier operations. It’s the fastest route to UAV normalization, and it offers a spiral route to something far more interesting. The little kid in me would have have loved […]
by admin on September 2, 2014
The fight over the Navy’s next-generation unmanned asset, the UCLASS, continues, with, as USNI’s Sam Lagrone reports, another delay: The final request for proposal (RFP) for the Navy’s planned carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been delayed pending a review of the service’s information, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) portfolio as part of the service’s budget […]
by Craig Hooper on March 26, 2010
Even with the big arms control news today, conventional missiles look like the wave of the future. Get used to cheap, non-nuclear and ballistic weaponry. I’ll be writing more about this, but these programs have been sorta on the fringes of the defense community for some time. Lockheed, a few years ago, got funds to […]
by Craig Hooper on March 17, 2010
For all the whining about how America isn’t funding cutting-edge rotary wing research, a few new rotary-wing UAV offerings look, ah, well cutting edge. Take Boeing’s A160 Hummingbird (YMQ-18A). This company-funded program has moved with lightening speed, and the fact this platform initially used a cheap off-the-shelf Subaru auto engine should be enough to win […]