Saturday, January 7, 2012

Cargo drone

  • KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. military is testing a revolutionary new drone for its arsenal, a pilotless helicopter intended to fly cargo missions to remote outposts where frequent roadside bombs threaten access by road convoys.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • WASHINGTON: The Navys newest Fire Scout drone may also become the Marine Corps newest aerial cargo drone if prime contractor Northrop Grumman has its way.
  • (AOL Travel News)
  • The Heron drone is designed for prolonged flights at medium altitude. During its flight testing, the aircraft preformed a 52 hour flight, but its operational flight time is much lower due to the heavy weight of the cargo.
  • (YNET News)
  • In response to the writer claiming President Obama was intimidated by Iran, in his response to the downed spy drone. It begs the question the secretive modules they kept, on a Russian cargo ship that returned it to the U.S.
  • (Havasu News-Herald)
  • Then, have that drone deploy several smaller surveillance drones that glide the Tempest drones traveled as far as 30 nautical miles before unleashing their Cicada cargo.
  • (Wired News)
  • Twenty-one cargo flights in the last 10 days helped with the evacuation encampments of militants associated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, using unmanned drone aircraft armed with missiles.
  • (Arab Times)
  • Alas, the cargo wasn't anything otherworldly. Just a trussed-up, wingless version of the Navy's futuristic killer drone, the X-47B, which the Navy hopes will one day be the world's first robot capable of landing on an aircraft carrier.
  • (Wired News)
  • A recent study found drone pilots report symptoms of burnout and clinical director of business development for Global Hawk.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Company officials are looking at including a tactical signals intelligence payload, as well as a cargo carrying capability into the Test and Evaluation office lambasted the drones performance during sea trials.
  • (AOL Travel News)
  • The drone operators, all of whom are veteran detectives This situation demands that the unit inspects suspicious boats below bridges, sweep an incoming cargo ships hull, or respond to a report of a suspicious floating package.
  • (Magic City Morning Star)

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