by Robert Beckhusen | Oct 22, 2012 | Monitor
Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle. Photo: Northrop Grumman The military’s distant dream of a floating eye in the sky may have become even more distant. Just over two months after the inaugural test flight of the Army’s giant robotic spy blimp — and...
by Robert Beckhusen | Jun 25, 2012 | Monitor
The A160 Hummingbird chopper-drone during a test flight. Photo: Boeing This month, the Army planned to deploy to Afghanistan an unusual new drone: an unmanned eye-in-the-sky helicopter programmed to use high-tech cameras to monitor vast amounts of territory. But now...