by David Axe | Mar 27, 2013 | Monitor
Northrop Grumman, Boeing, General Atomics and Lockheed Martin are set to square off in a contest to build the first drone to operate off an aircraft carrier.
by Noah Shachtman and David Axe | Oct 29, 2012 | Monitor
A MQ-9 Reaper drone on the runway in Ft. Drum, New York. Photo: USAF Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn’t secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reaper...
by Danger Room staff | Aug 16, 2012 | Monitor
<< Previous | Next >> Today’s unmanned robotic planes only seem advanced. A decade after the CIA and the Air Force tucked a Hellfire missile under the wing of a Predator drone, much hasn’t actually changed: pilots in air-conditioned boxes...