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American Airlines says it no longer faces a pilot crisis Christmas week
The glitch left around 15,000 flights without a pilot. The airline first attempted to staff the fli…
Mark Matousek
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US Marines put their new experimental 'loyal wingman' to the test finding targets for a force of fifth-gen F-35 stealth fighters
The test focused on improving communication between the XQ-58 Valkyrie unmanned aircraft and F-35s,…
Chris Panella
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The Marine Corps just successfully tested a fully autonomous helicopter
During the Dec. 13, demonstration tests at Quantico, a Marine with no prior experience with the te…
Navy.mil, Warren Duffie Jr.
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The US Air Force says the Valkyrie drone launched another drone in a first for the aircraft
On its sixth flight test, the Valkyrie drone also flew higher and faster than it had in previous te…
Ryan Pickrell
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The Navy is getting closer to relying on pilotless planes to keep its fighters flying
Recent developments with the Navy's unmanned aerial systems reflect the major role those system cou…
Benjamin Brimelow
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China says it has an uncrewed cargo plane that can carry 4,400 pounds that just made its 20-minute maiden flight
The effort is part of China's strides in advancing its "low-altitude economy," projected to be wort…
Aditi Bharade
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DRDO’s unmanned combat drone takes flight
The UCAV comes under the medium-altitude, long endurance (MALE) category of vehicles and it is said…
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Customs and Border Protection flew a Predator B drone over Minneapolis as protests rocked the city
The drone flight came amid intense protests in Minneapolis following the death of a black man after…
Ryan Pickrell
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A drone that flew for over two months in a US Army test crashed in Arizona after nearly breaking a record for the longest flight
The Zephyr drone flew for 64 days before it "experienced an issue which ended the flight campaign,"…
Charles R. Davis
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The US Navy's new pilotless tanker plane just refueled an aircraft carrier fighter jet for the first time, and this is what it looked like
Watch an MQ-25 Stingray drone refuel an F/A-18 Super Hornet, the first time a pilotless plane has r…
Ryan Pickrell
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DARPA's latest 'Gremlins' test shows how the US military's biggest planes could be motherships in future wars
If Gremlins can do what the military has in mind, they could help US aircraft stay out of range of …
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Milestones with 2 new planes show the US and China trying to improve on the same important mission
The Y-20 and MQ-25 are radically different aircraft, but both will allow US and Chinese military ai…
Christopher Woody
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Gaganyaan's first unmanned test flight won't be happening this year
The first unmanned test flight of Indian rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), as …
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The US Navy is making a nearly billion-dollar bet on drones that can make aircraft carriers more lethal
"We will look back on this day and recognize that this event represents a dramatic shift in the way…
Christopher Woody
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How India is inching a step closer to its mission of sending an astronaut into space by 2022
The Indian government expects that its recent satellite missions -- including those …
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Why birds never crash into each other in midair
Their rationale was that birds must've evolved over millions of years to have these skills, and
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Lydia Ramsey
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A secretive US Space Force unmanned craft landed after almost 2.5 years in orbit
The secretive mission flew 908 days in orbit, the longest of the X-37 Space Force flights. It lande…
Marianne Guenot
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A Military Defense Contractor Has A New Chair That Can Control Up To Three Drones At Once
This proof-of-concept demonstrator is built around a control station capable of supervising multipl…
Dylan Love
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This Hoverbike Is A High-Flying Mix Between A Motorcycle And A Helicopter
"I've always been one to look at designs and see how I can make them better. And when I got my heli…