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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...

Bird-Like Microdrones Poised to Swoop Into Battle

TAMPA, Fla. (June 21) -- When the jet-black Maveric flies over Florida skies, the local turkey vultures fly after it. That's because Maveric, one of a new generation of microdrones, has a profile remarkably similar to that of a bird in flight. Most people associate drones with the large unmanned aircraft carrying out...

Photo Captures Mystery Drone Operating Over Afghanistan

Courtesy of Lockheed Martin The mystery plane spotted in Kandahar appears similar to this Lockheed Martin Polecat, an unmanned aerial vehicle revealed in 2006. A French journalist's picture of the mystery jet appeared on this French language site. For months, aerospace writers have been hot on the trail of a secret...