<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Defense Tech &#187; Drones</title> <atom:link href="http://defensetech.org/category/drones/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://defensetech.org</link> <description>The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:24:46 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Meet North Korea’s Latest Drone</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/06/meet-north-koreas-latest-drone/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/06/meet-north-koreas-latest-drone/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Those Nutty Norks]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16331</guid> <description><![CDATA[As Iran and China and who knows who else scrambles to unlock the secrets of the U.S. Air Force’s stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel drone, North Korea is moving to reverse engineer some 1970s-vintage target drones. Yup, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency is reporting that the North has bought up old MQM-107D Streaker target drones from Syria [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/06/meet-north-koreas-latest-drone/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>32</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Army Eying the K-MAX for Tactical Airlift?</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/03/army-eying-the-k-max-for-tactical-airlift/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/03/army-eying-the-k-max-for-tactical-airlift/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:02:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[army]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rotary Wing]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16326</guid> <description><![CDATA[Check this out. We’ve been wondering how the cancellation of the C-27J Joint Cargo Aircraft would impact the Army’s tactical airlift needs. While the Air Force says canning the JCA won’t hurt anyone, it looks like the Army is eying the optionally-manned K-MAX helo to carry realatively small but urgent loads of cargo to remote [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/03/army-eying-the-k-max-for-tactical-airlift/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>40</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meet the Air Force’s Newest X-Plane</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/02/meet-the-air-forces-newest-x-plane/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/02/meet-the-air-forces-newest-x-plane/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:13:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16315</guid> <description><![CDATA[Aviation Week dropped a heck of a story yesterday when it revealed the Air Force’s newest X-plane, the X-56A. The the flying wing is being designed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks to test out the technologies that will allow a new crop of reconnaissance planes to stay aloft at high altitudes for long periods of times; think days or weeks. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/02/meet-the-air-forces-newest-x-plane/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>27</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Creepy-Cool Video: Tiny UAVs Flying in Formation</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/01/creepycool-video-tiny-uavs-flying-in-formation/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/01/creepycool-video-tiny-uavs-flying-in-formation/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:39:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robots]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rotary Wing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Video Lounge]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16307</guid> <description><![CDATA[In case you guys haven’t seen this video, it’s awesome. It shows a swarm of tiny quadrotor UAVs flying in numerous formations, performing figure eights with each other and even flying around obstacles. Talk about sense and avoid! The little drones (monsters?) were developed and programmed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/01/creepycool-video-tiny-uavs-flying-in-formation/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>90</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Get Ready for the EQ-4 Global Hawk</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/01/get-ready-for-the-eq-4-global-hawk/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/01/get-ready-for-the-eq-4-global-hawk/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:01:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16298</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Air Force is paying Northrop Grumman $47 million to equip two more Block 20 RQ-4 Global Hawks with BACN. You know, the communications link that allows different types of  datalinks to communicate with one another; allowing troops on the ground to easily share info with pilots in jets overhead even if they’re out of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/01/get-ready-for-the-eq-4-global-hawk/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>20</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Navy Getting Very Close to UAV Aerial Refueling</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/26/navy-getting-very-close-to-uav-aerial-refueling/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/26/navy-getting-very-close-to-uav-aerial-refueling/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:39:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16158</guid> <description><![CDATA[So, the Navy just took a big step toward achieving the military’s goal of having UAV’s capable of mid-air refueling. Last month, a Navy Learjet equipped with flight control software and refueling hardware from the service’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator jet autonomously completed a mock air-to-air refueling from a Boeing 707-based tanker (shown [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/26/navy-getting-very-close-to-uav-aerial-refueling/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>36</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pics of the Day: X-47B From Above</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/25/pics-of-the-day-x-47b-from-above/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/25/pics-of-the-day-x-47b-from-above/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:48:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16152</guid> <description><![CDATA[Speaking of Northrop Grumman-made UAVs, check out these new photos of Northrop’s stealthy X-47B. The downward-looking pics show the plane — designed to test out how to operate a fighter-sized, stealthy UAV from an aircraft carrier — flying from an angle I’d never seen before. They make it look all the more badass, even if [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/25/pics-of-the-day-x-47b-from-above/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>66</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Adios Global Hawk, U-2 Will Stick Around (updated)</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/25/adios-global-hawk-u-2-will-stick-around/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/25/adios-global-hawk-u-2-will-stick-around/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:56:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Extra! Extra!]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Old Skool]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16143</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wow, so it looks like we’re seeing the first of the upcoming budget cuts for the Air Force trickle out. The AP is reporting that the Air Force is cancelling the RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude spy drone opting instead to keep the legendary U-2 Dragon Lady in service (for now, anyway)! Yup, the 50-year old [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/25/adios-global-hawk-u-2-will-stick-around/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>43</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Stealthy, Worm-Shaped, Spying Airship. What?</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/23/a-stealthy-worm-shaped-spying-airship-what/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/23/a-stealthy-worm-shaped-spying-airship-what/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:55:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Big Bro's Watching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cloak and Dagger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16121</guid> <description><![CDATA[Check out the latest piece of UAV spy tech that the DoD is looking at out at the giant Nevada Test Site. World Surveillance Group’s worm-like Argus One airship began flight demonstrations for the Pentagon at a Department of Energy-owned airstrip inside the mysterious test range. (It was probably at the DoE’s Yucca airstrip, a site that [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/23/a-stealthy-worm-shaped-spying-airship-what/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>81</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Last Summer’s Mysterious Global Hawk Crash</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/20/last-summers-mysterious-global-hawk-crash/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/20/last-summers-mysterious-global-hawk-crash/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:34:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16089</guid> <description><![CDATA[Does anyone know anything about the mysterious RQ-4 Global Hawk crash that occurred downrange — possibly just inside Pakistan close to the Afghan city of Jalalabad — last August? The Air Force’s crash report database doesn’t allow you to open up the accident investigation board’s report on the incident which received surprisingly little media coverage. I say this because the Global [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/20/last-summers-mysterious-global-hawk-crash/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>48</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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