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Monster Machines: The Grey Eagle Drone Now Flies For Nearly Two Days Straight
The MQ-1 Predator UAV is one of America’s most prolific and productive drones, having notched more than a million hours of flight time since its introduction in 1994. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for continued improvement to the platform. In fact, General Atomics has also been hard at work with a slightly less…
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Monster Machines: This Failed Flying Bomb Could Have Been A WWI Cruise Missile
In 1915, nearly two decades after patenting the world’s first radio-controlled boat, famed Serbian-America inventor Nicola Tesla imagined fleets of unmanned aerial combat vehicles being sent to war instead of pilots. Little did he know, the US Navy was already hard at work on that very same vision.
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Explore A Turn-Of-The-Century Parisian Landmark On The Back Of A Drone
Drone photography: If you’re not against it because of the Constitution, you’re against it because of how over-hyped it is. But in the hands of enterprising architecture fans, unmanned airborne cameras are also letting us explore some of the most important structures ever built from entirely new angles. Today, it’s Paris’ 1897 glass-and-steel icon, the…
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Monster Machines: Who Built This Mysterious Spy Drone Captured By Syrian Rebels?
The situation in Syria is getting worse by the hour. France and the UK have both confirmed Assad’s use of Sarin gas against rebel-held towns, Hezbollah fighters have jumped in to the regime’s defence, and drones are falling out of the sky at an alarming pace, including this one.