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Pentagon's Tiny New Spy Drone Mimics Hummingbird

Like a real hummingbird, the Pentagon's newest spy drone can fly up and down, side to side, and forward and backward. In fact, in a new video released this week by the company that produces it, the tiny drone looks and flies a lot like a real hummingbird as it buzzes over an operator outside. Meet the military's newest...

Air Force Aims to Launch 'Spy Pigeon' Drone by 2015

(July 8) -- In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials often had to rely on grainy satellite photos to decide whether facilities on the ground were intended for producing weapons of mass destruction. Now imagine that instead of overhead satellite imagery -- or even high-flying unmanned aircraft -- they could...

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EVS: Aerovironment's been around long enough to not pick sides in SAE/CHAdeMO debate

There's a good reason that Aerovironment proudly displayed the 20-year-old EV1 in its booth at the Electric Vehicle Symposium ( EVS26 ): it's not a newcomer.

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05/24/12 AeroVironment to Deploy Small Unmanned Aircraft for... Source: Business Wire (NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced it will employ its small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to demonstrate aerial communications capabilities for the Federal Communications Commission’s Deployable Aerial Communications Architecture (DACA) Notice of Inquiry (NOI) proceeding.
05/24/12 Drones Take Flight For Civilian Use Source: CNN Blogs As the two longest wars in American history come to a close, and defense spending decelerates, defense contractors are quickly devising ways to alter their war-time technology for commercial and civilian use.
05/24/12 Aerovironment Unveils Digital Wasp AE Small UAV Source: defense-aerospace.com TAMPA, Fla. --- At SOFIC--AeroVironment today introduced the Wasp AE small unmanned aircraft system and announced that it has been accepted by the U.S. Air Force for inclusion in its Battlefield Air Targeting Micro Air Vehicle (BATMAV) program.
05/23/12 U.S. Air Force orders AeroVironment Digital Wasp... Source: Military & Aerospace Electronics AeroVironment ( NASDAQ:AVAV ) has unveiled its Wasp AE small unmanned aircraft system ( UAS ).
05/23/12 AeroVironment awarded $5.1M order by U.S. Army Source: Theflyonthewall.com