Just like how locust swarms can cause devastating natural disasters, the U.S. Navy’s Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) drones could devastate adversaries. A fitting acronym, the Navy’s LOCUST ...
The Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) LOCUST (LOw-Cost Unmannded aerial vehicle Swarming Technology) test system can rapidly launch up to 30 cooperative drones (Fig. 1). The tube-launched drones unfold ...
In the near future, those who find themselves the target of the US Navy could be attacked by a swarm of miniature drones as part of a new programme being developed called LOCUST. Standing for Low-Cost ...
A new era in autonomy and unmanned systems for naval operations is on the horizon, as officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced today recent technology demonstrations of swarming ...
A Coyote UAV is three feet long and weighs 12 to 14 pounds. The Pentagon has made clear that it wants the next generation of unmanned vehicles to be able to work autonomously and together, in packs ...
Armed forces around the world are looking to machines to change how wars are won. Inside the War Fighting Lab, the Marine Corps is developing remote-controlled land-based robots and aerial drones that ...
The US Navy is demonstrating a development version of a system to launch an autonomous swarm of drones for a variety of missions. A system to launch and co-ordinate a swarm of small, cheap drones is ...
The days of enormous, singular UAVs directly controlled by remote pilots may be coming to an end. Over the last few years, there's been a lot work towards developing smaller drones capable of ...
A new era in autonomy and unmanned systems for naval operations is on the horizon, as officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced today recent technology demonstrations of swarming ...