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, […]
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In case you haven’t seen it, Sandia National Labs is working on a self-guided bullet for small arms that can hit targets a mile away. Kinda like a small version of the Army’s Excalibur smart artillery round. The four-inch, dart-like round uses tiny fins and an optical sensor in its nose to follow a laser […]
Last week we showed you pics of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s first night flight that happened on Jan. 18 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Well, Lockheed just released the video from that dusk flight in which an F-35A took off at 5:05 pm and landed shortly after sunset at 6:20 pm. This […]
Happy Monday, everyone. To kick things off I wanted to share this cool video of tons of what appear to be M2 Bradley fighting vehicles (without their Bushmaster chain guns installed, and yes, I know that M2’s aren’t really tanks) being shipped by train in California recently. The video posted after the jump is one […]
With all the talk this week about unmanned spy planes, we thought we’d visit the aircraft that has defined the genre for more than half a century now; the Lockheed Martin U-2 Dragon Lady. U-2s have been shot down plenty of times all over the world while flying some of the most important intel missions […]
