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US May Send Drone Chopper to Help Japan With Crippled Nuke Plant

Cleanup work at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant presents a radiation risk to many workers, even helicopter pilots flying over the complex. One partial solution could be an unmanned aircraft capable of carrying 6,000 pounds of cargo -- in this case, water -- to help tame the crippled facility. "The U.S. Navy is...

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...

5 Questions About the Air Force's Gorgon Stare Drone

The military is expected soon to send a new sensor system on its Reaper unmanned aircraft flying over Afghanistan that can keep watch over entire cities. The Air Force has even named the new "all seeing" system Gorgon Stare, after the mythological creature that could turn people into stone with her stare. But in reality,...

Mexican Drone Crash Lands in El Paso: 4 Possible Explanations

(Dec. 17) -- Someone needs to explain this. U.S. authorities are investigating an unmanned Mexican drone that crash landed in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, the El Paso Times reported Friday. Authorities identified the drone -- which landed in "someone's backyard" -- as an Orbiter Mini UAV designed by Aeronautics Defense...

Air Force Drone Patrols Reach New High

(Nov. 5) -- More than two years after being sharply criticized by the secretary of defense for not flying enough surveillance missions, the U.S. Air Force has almost doubled the number of unmanned Predator and Reaper aircraft combat patrols. "On the second [of November], we stood up our 45th CAP [combat air patrol], and...