by Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman | Dec 4, 2012 | Monitor
The Navy talks about its drone helicopter the way Apple geeks gushed over the first-generation iPhone in 2007. But like that early iPhone, the Fire Scout is seriously buggy.
by David Axe | Nov 30, 2012 | Monitor
The U.S. Navy has taken huge steps towards deploying the first carrier-launched robotic warplane.
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 David Axe | Sep 10, 2012 | Monitor
A WB-57F taking off. Photo: via David Cenciotti They’re 49 years old, ugly and owned by NASA, not the Pentagon. But two modified WB-57F Canberras are now among America’s most important warplanes. With anonymous-looking white paint jobs, the Canberras have...
by David Axe | Aug 8, 2012 | Monitor
On Tuesday, not far from the beaches of New Jersey, was a sight hundreds of millions of dollars and years of development in the making: the Army’s football-field-size robot spy blimp took to the air for the first time at a military base in Lakehurst. The...