Teledyne-FLIR Merger Creates Tactical Drone Powerhouse

Teledyne-FLIR Merger Creates Tactical Drone Powerhouse
Teledyne-FLIR Merger Creates Tactical Drone Powerhouse

The combined company will offer a wide range of unmanned vehicles (mostly small ones) for air, land, sea, and underwater, said exec Roger Wells.

Army Buys 9,000 Mini-Drones, Rethinks Ground Robots

Army Buys 9,000 Mini-Drones, Rethinks Ground Robots
Army Buys 9,000 Mini-Drones, Rethinks Ground Robots

Ground robots still lag drones, but the Army thinks both technologies are ready to field to frontline units, just at different levels.

Tiny Drones Win Over Army Grunts; Big Bots? Not So Much

Tiny Drones Win Over Army Grunts; Big Bots? Not So Much
Tiny Drones Win Over Army Grunts; Big Bots? Not So Much

Tiny drones, no bigger than your palm, were the big stars of an Army experiment in Hawaii, participants told Breaking Defense. Larger ground robots, however, struggled in the jungle. Staff Sergeant James Roe told me he was “blown away” by the PD-100 Black Hornet, a commercially available mini-drone used in PACMAN-I (Pacific Manned-Unmanned Initiative, part of…