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Navy launches suicide drone from ship at sea for first time

A LUCAS drone was successfully launched from the flight deck of the USS Santa Barbara, a littoral combat ship currently ...
Avionics International

Northrop Grumman Eyes First Flight Of Project Talon Next Year

Northrop Grumman used its Beacon autonomous testbed, announced in June, to accelerate development of the Project Talon ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Allag-E: Interceptor aircraft can hunt and kill drones flying at 124 mph like an eagle

The counter-drone system features a 1.7 kg warhead with a fragmentation cutting disk-type charge that can down a UAV even ...
Stars and Stripes

Launch of LUCAS one-way attack drone from Navy ship at sea called ‘significant milestone’

U.S. Central Command assigned the LUCAS drone to Task Force Scorpion Strike, a unit created to develop and deploy one-way ...
Stars and Stripes

Air Force’s new deployable task force wraps up its first Indo-Pacific mission

A new type of Air Force expeditionary unit designed to deploy in a crisis recently tested how to fight and survive across ...
The Aviationist on MSN

U.S. Navy Conducts First Shipborne Launch of LUCAS One-Way Attack Drone

A Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) was launched from the flight deck of littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara while operating in the ...