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This Drone Can Patrol Hundreds of Kilometers of Critical Infrastructure
Inspecting pipelines, power lines and transportation corridors presents a difficult logistical problem. These assets can stretch for hundreds of kilometers through remote terrain, making...
This Quantum-Inspired Tech Tests Thousands of Drone Designs at Once
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Persistent surveillance is one of the biggest challenges in modern military operations. Conventional drones are limited by battery capacity or fuel, requiring frequent landings...
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Small military drones are taking on increasingly complex missions, from reconnaissance and target tracking to autonomous navigation and coordinated swarm operations. Yet many of...
A Missile No Heavier Than a Laptop Takes Aim at Drone...
The rapid spread of military drones has created a growing problem for air-defense forces. Many attack drones are inexpensive to produce, yet they are...
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Countering small drones has become increasingly difficult as unmanned aircraft grow smaller, cheaper, and more numerous. Traditional radar systems can detect many aerial threats,...
New AI Tracker Locks Onto Drones in Under a Second
The growing use of small drones on the battlefield is creating new challenges for military forces. Detecting an incoming unmanned aircraft is only the...
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Modern militaries are fielding an increasingly diverse range of unmanned systems, from interceptor missiles and one-way attack drones to robotic ground vehicles. While these...
Autonomous Robot Boat Combines Surface and Aerial Surveillance
Maritime surveillance often requires both surface vessels and aerial drones to maintain awareness over large areas. While drones provide a much wider field of...
This Drone Doesn’t Carry Weapons—It Hunts Electronic Threats
Modern battlefields are saturated with electronic activity. Radars, jammers, drone control stations, communications systems, and other emitters constantly transmit radio-frequency signals that can reveal...
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As wireless devices continue to multiply, the radio spectrum is becoming increasingly crowded. Smartphones, connected vehicles, industrial sensors, wearables and countless other devices all...
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The rapid growth of military drone operations is exposing a major weakness in traditional air defense. While medium-sized unmanned aircraft used for reconnaissance and...
Scaling Up Drone Production to Reduce Dependence on China
Commercial drones have become a standard operational tool for military and law enforcement forces in recent years, but their widespread use raises a strategic...
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