by David Hambling | Dec 28, 2015 | Latest Posts
When Alexander Yakunin, a director of leading Russian arms company Rostec, told the newspaper TASS that his company is building small multicopters armed with flamethrowers, you might have assumed he was joking. The flamethrowing drone is not a practical weapon. ...
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...
Recent Comments