All posts tagged "Drone Aircraft"

The US Army has for the first time successfully tested a vehicle-mounted laser that managed to shoot down incoming mortar rounds and drone aircraft, officials said Thursday.

The US military plans to set up a base for drones in northwest Africa to bolster surveillance of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the region as well as allied Islamist extremists, a US official told AFP on Monday.

The online arms race just got a lot sillier.

U.S. officials said Tuesday that another drone aircraft has mysteriously crashed, this time while on routine patrol around the small island nation of Seychelles, east of Africa.

An unknown virus has infected the control systems for the U.S. military's fleet of Predator and Reaper drones, an exclusive report filed by Wired's Noah Shachtman revealed on Friday.

A series of tweets from parody news site The Onion has sparked an investigation at the U.S. Capitol, according to the Washington Post.