drone

China playing a stupid game. We can always give them drone problems from their neighbours too. https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2024/07/02/italy-seizes-chinese-military-drones-heading-to-libya-authorities-say/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tw_dfn This has classic...

It seems that China has built a drone carrier ! https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/05/china-builds-worlds-first-dedicated-drone-carrier/

F-5E revived? https://t.me/infantmilitario/115577 Mi-171Sh: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/houthi-helicopter-raid-on-ship-in-red-sea-seen-in-new-video

I am doing some research about a possible missile/drone sighting in the 1980's, in Muddus national park in the north of Sweden. The witnesses say they saw a cigar shaped object with fins or tubes at the end of it. It flew approximately 100 meters over them. Then it flew about 600 meters out...

This article divided into two chapters. On the Russian Ukrainian battlefield, the Lancet suicide drone is a star weapon. It destroys several expensive Western weapons, including the Panther 2 tank, Bradley armoured transport vehicle, M777 howitzer, French Caesar artillery, Polish Crab...

https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/20221209-OYT1T50038/ Yomiuri Shinbun reported that there's a major shift of JSDF force mix incoming. This is following a major increase in defense spending by the Japanese. In short, they will replace a major share of their manned aerial assets in favor of...

LOL. Looks like this company didn't shy away from getting a bit creative with the naming scheme, because of course a drone that proudly displays a "SEXBOMB" livery traveling at hypersonic speeds while the surface temperature of its skin raises sounds sexy :D...

This thread is not intended to discuss any individual countries use of drones as UAV are now called...

The Aero L-39 Albatros light attack variant, L-39-ZA, needs a modification so that it can intercept and shoot down swarms of low-cost drones, like the Shahed-136, which flies at 185 km/h, aiming most carefully by flying at the same speed as the drones while firing its 23mm cannon, which it can...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/royal-navy-christens-new-experimental-ship-the-xv-patrick-blackett/ar-AA1075di?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=717285f21e704ffb8edc86108381c8a7

https://www.airforcemag.com/details-emerge-on-new-unmanned-long-range-bomber-and-fighter-projects/ So uuh... Supersonic?

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2019/09/houthi-drone-and-missile-handbook.html?m=1 I’d like to know in particular the story behind the cannibalized Luna rockets

AQUILINE was a CIA project to develop a low-flying surveillance RPV in the late 60s/early 70s. From "Air Force UAVs The Secret History": "The CIA developed a few UAVs through the Directorate of Science and Technology’s Office of Development and Engineering rather than through the NRO. The...

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/27/mystery-drones-colorado-conspiracy-theories/

http://soldiersystems.net/2019/05/24/sofic-19-defendtex-drone-40/

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/usaf-northrop-harassment-weapons-1817855401

The Navy MQ-4C Triton is designed to provide the Navy with an advanced autonomous air vehicle and state of the art service-oriented architecture mission control system that will enable it to provide persistent maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) directly to the maritime...

In 1975, the U.S. Air Force was trying to determine what the capabilities of the next generation of drones should be and how such a vehicle — designed specifically for the task — would accomplish these objectives. While the Air Force's then current inventory of remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs)...

Hi all, two pics of an early german UAV: the Argus As-292.