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Drones coming to neighborhood near you

Source: Quad-Cities Online, Dec 10 2012, 7:15am CST

Drone aircraft may be coming to a neighborhood near you in a couple of years. In addition to all the constructive applications for unmanned aerial vehicles, the UAVs offer powerful tools that can look deep int ...

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2 hours ago

Does Navy drone spell end of the Super Hornet?

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch  |   May 19 2013, 12:40am CDT

Something happened on the deck of an aircraft carrier off the coast of Virginia on Tuesday that could eventually ripple all the way back to one of the biggest factories in the St. Louis area. It was a “watershed event,” sa ...

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4 hours ago

Drones threat to civil liberties, Congress told

Source: Pittsburgh Entertainment  |   May 18 2013, 11:13pm CDT

France has received approval from the Pentagon to buy two Reaper drones for intelligence gathering, and now needs only backing from Congress, Le Monde newspaper reported on Saturday. With its current hardware i ...

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22 weeks ago


Quote:
"Don't mess with my private life."


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6 hours ago

Terror drone kills 4 in southern Yemen

Source: Press TV  |   May 18 2013, 9:12pm CDT

On Saturday, an unmanned aerial vehicle targeted a truck in the al-Mahfad region of Abyan province. Local officials have confirmed the death of four people but say it is not clear if they were al-Qaeda mil ...

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15 hours ago

Minn. National Guard launches new drone facility

Source: San Francisco Chronicle  |   May 18 2013, 12:33pm CDT

CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota National Guard has officially launched its new $3.9 million Unmanned Aircraft Operations Facility at Camp Ripley. The Star Tribune reports ( http://bit.ly/19IkG1o ) the facility is capable of sto ...

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1 day ago

Minnesota National Guard launches its $3.9 million drone facility

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune  |   May 17 2013, 9:32pm CDT

CAMP RIPLEY, MINN. – The Shadow, an unmanned aerial vehicle commonly known as a drone, roars to life on the video screen like a powerful snowmobile before it’s launched into the skies on a catapult. Unfortunately, weather conditions prevented the ...

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1 day ago

The Army is looking for a few good drone backhoes

Source: Foreign Policy  |   May 17 2013, 8:15pm CDT

And you thought this week's news about the Navy's fancy stealth drone was good. Not to be outdone by the sea service, the Army this week revealed that it's looking to develop autonomous robo-backhoes and robot versions the military's famous ar ...

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1 day ago

Unmanned Aircraft Training Facility Unveiled at Camp Ripley

Source: KSTP | Minneapolis & St. Paul  |   May 17 2013, 6:25pm CDT

The Minnesota National Guard unveiled a new facility to better train troops to use drones. The $3,900,000 operation houses nearly 50 unmanned aircraft systems. Three of those are the sophisticated Shadow Systems, used ...

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1 day ago

Military drone training comes to Camp Ripley

Source: MPR | Minnesota Public Radio  |   May 17 2013, 3:50pm CDT

CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. — The Minnesota Army National Guard showed off its new unmanned training facility at Camp Ripley today. The $4 million facility, the only one of its kind in the region, will improve training for National Guard soldiers who f ...

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1 day ago

NM named among states that could ‘dominate the drone economy’

Source: New Mexico Business Weekly  |   May 17 2013, 3:12pm CDT

A digest of important news from sources selected by our local editors. Delivered weekday mornings. New Mexico has been named one of the nine states “poised to dominate the drone economy,” according to Fortune magazine. New ...

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