Showing posts with label Drones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drones. Show all posts
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Simplifying things by using unmanned tools

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Interesting piece from Sam LaGrone at USNI News Navy Wants 100 Unmanned Ships Monitoring Middle East Waters by Next Year The United States ...
Friday, April 08, 2022

Friday Films Design and Testing of SD-3 "Snooper" Drone (1959)

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Silent films about the development of a Republic Aviation twin boom drone in the late 1950's. About this aircraft .
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Countering Drones: U.S. Surface Navy Getting a New Tool

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Reported at USNI News Navy Arming Surface Ships with Drone Repellent System : The Drone Restricted Access Using Known Electromagnetic Warfar...
Friday, March 08, 2019

Friday Films: Drone Anti--Submarine Helicopter (DASH) and the WWII TDR-1 Drone Torpedo Bomber

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Before the U.S. Navy stopped this program, it provided small ships like destroyers with a stand-off ASW weapon. 160 ships underwent a moder...
Monday, October 01, 2018

Saudi Navy Intercepts Two Explosives-Filled Drone Boats

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Maritime Executive report on mischief in the Red Sea: Saudi Navy Intercepts Two Explosives-Filled Drone Boats On Sunday, Saudi Arabia...
Thursday, August 09, 2018

Oceans of Drones

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Interesting piece from the Economist on expanding ocean surveillance in a variety of causes, including military Avast, me hearties: How aqua...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Important Strategic Input: "U.S. Navy Carriers: Strike Range Expansion Is Critical"

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If you are going to influence shore based powers, you need to be able to reach out touch them if need be. This is addressed by Jerry Hendr...
Monday, February 27, 2017

That Attack on the Saudi Frigate Revisited

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I got to thinking about a discussion we had as part of Midrats yesterday in which we talked about the attack on a Saudi frigate in the Red S...
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Friday, February 24, 2017

Friday Film: Early Drones - From 1942 "U.S. Navy TDN-1"

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Remotely piloted aircraft have been around longer than you might think.
Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Anti-UAV Tech: AUDS

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Aviation Week noted  AUDS Counter-drone System First to Achieve TRL-9 Status Following Successful Deployment with U.S. Forces . So what...
Monday, January 09, 2017

Coming Soon to a Combat Theater Near You: U.S. Navy Drone Swarms

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60 Minutes early look - best to just play it on full screen as my video magic seems to be missing tonight - nope, fixed it: October 2...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Fun with Drones: Autonomous Undersea Vehicles Operating Cooperatively

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The Ocean News headline understates the import of the exercise in Iver3-AUV Plays Active Role in Unmanned Warrior (UW) 2016 *** Mult...
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Thursday, August 11, 2016

UAVs for Everyone: Navy Deploys Small UAV to Ships

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Seapower magazine reports U.S. Navy Deploying Newly Designated RQ-20B AeroVironment Puma AE : The U.S. Navy has tested and deployed the ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Department of Old Ideas Revisited: Airship Aircraft - er- Drone Carriers?

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Seems like every now and then the "airship" (read as "blimp" or "dirigible") idea gets dusted off and someone ...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Gremlins? Really? Retrievable and Reuseable UAVs to Add to Air Mission Packages

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DARPA has contracts out to explore unmanned air systems (UASs) that are air recoverable and reusable as set out in this news release "G...
Friday, April 08, 2016

Friday Bonus Videos: DARPA/ONR and the Anti Submarine Warfare ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel ACTUV

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The first ACTUV gets "christened" : The christening, to include the traditional breaking of a ceremonial bottle over the bow by D...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Confusion to the Foe: U.S. Drone Swarms

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From the Office of Naval Research: ONR News : Office of Naval Research officials announced recent technology demonstrations of swarmin...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Fighting Sea Mines: Long Range AUV Endurance Run

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NRL photo A prototype Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) sets an endurance records that may help the U.S. Navy counter-sea mine operati...
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Monday, August 18, 2014

Drone Wars: Combined Manned, Unmanned Carrier Operations

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Shouldn't be surprise, should it? I mean, that was the plan - right? USS Theodore Roosevelt Conducts Combined Manned, Unmanned Opera...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Swarming Undersea Drones

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At NAVALDRONES: Swarming Underwater Vehicles, an Update Autonomous vehicles cooperating across various ocean depths will be useful for re...