Military drones are a progressive issue for troops and bases around the world, and the primary method for dealing with them ...

Budget documents reveal competition in the procurement process between low-cost FPV drones and traditional loitering ...

The U.S. Army recently awarded QinetiQ North America a contract worth up to $152 million for special robots that are light enough to be carried in a backpack into combat. The Common Robotic System ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Army is partnering with the Pentagon’s internal startup accelerator to adapt small commercial drones—think hobbyists ...

When the military chooses a UAV to adopt, it looks at a few aspects. No drones are built the same. ... while others can be carried in a backpack and have a single purpose.

AeroVironment's Raven B unmanned aerial vehicle has beaten out L-3 BAI Aerosystems' Evolution XTS to be the next-generation backpack-portable Small UAV for Army soldiers, according to the service.

A silly little story about the inanities of defense contracting. In the Army’s vision of the future, every 200-man company of soldiers will carry around its own, 30-pound ground robot — to ...

The military learned long ago to protect its equipment from these threats. Drone pilots should do the same. Most professional drone pilots operate drones that range in cost from a few thousand ...

Ghost 4 drones connect to Lattice, a system that ingests data from thousands of sensors. That includes high-resolution video, imagery from infrared cameras and radio emissions from enemy equipment ...

Honeywell has begun flight tests of a 33-centimeter UAV that a soldier can carry in a backpack, Vaughn Fulton, Honeywell’s program manager for unmanned aerial systems, said.

The U.S. military couldn’t have fought the way it did in Iraq or Afghanistan if the enemy had had killer drones. The next battlefield opponent is likely to have them.