by David Hambling | Dec 20, 2015 | Latest Posts
These pictures, posted on the Facebook page of the Kurdish YPG group fighting in Syria, are claimed to show a small drone packed with explosives used for an attack by ISIS. The drones have been tentatively identified as Skywalker X7 or X8, a hobby drone sold in kit...
by David Hambling | Dec 16, 2015 | Latest Posts
The FAA was expecting there to be only about 15,000 drones in the U.S. by 2020. The Dai-Jiang Innovation Technology Company – better known as DJI — now sells more than that every month. Over the Christmas season, drone sales in the US may top a million,...
by David Hambling | Dec 8, 2015 | Latest Posts
Austin Haughwout, who attracted media attention with a YouTube video of a homemade drone firing a handgun has taken a more frivolous direction for his next project. His new video – with heavy corporate sponsorship, trading on the fame of the first effort...
by David Hambling | Dec 7, 2015 | Latest Posts
The new video for Amazon’s Prime Air service gives an idea of the state of the art, showing a small drone that can take off and land vertically, as well as flying like an aircraft at high speed. It can deliver a parcel weighing five pounds to an address ten...
by David Hambling | Dec 5, 2015 | Latest Posts
Chapter 8 of Swarm Trooper describes MAHEM — short for MAgnetoHydrodynamic Explosive Munition – a technology originally developed by DARPA to dramatically increase the power of small warheads. These are now being developed to arm portable, lethal drones like...
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