Three F-18 fighter jets scream over the California desert. They leave 104 tiny capsules in their wake. These capsules, each one smaller than a shoebox, flutter down on parachutes then break open and ...

With a whine like a swarm of giant angry wasps descending on a picnic, 103 micro-drones recently carried out organized maneuvers in the skies over China Lake, California. Billed by the US Department ...

A new generation of drones is coming. The U.S. military has used the remotely piloted vehicles for more than 15 years, but now the devices are capable of flying missions autonomously — and in a swarm.

The United States military successfully launched what it’s calling “one of the world’s largest micro-drone swarms” in October. At a test site in California, the 103 Perdix drones released from three F ...

It’s no secret the U.S. military is looking to low-cost swarming drones for the next wave of unmanned technology: The Navy has its LOCUST program; the Air Force has Gremlins, and even the Army has ...

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has successfully launched a swarm of over 100 drones operating together through artificial intelligence, the largest such effort in DoD history and a major step forward for ...

An arm of the Pentagon charged with fielding critical new technologies has developed a drone that not only carries out its mission without human piloting, but can talk to other drones to collaborate ...

In one of the largest successful demonstrations of swarming micro-drones, over 100 Perdix UAVs screamed over the US Naval Air Systems Command’s testing grounds at China Lake, California last October.

The Pentagons Strategic Capabilities Office has been testing micro-drones that can be dropped from moving fighter jets for nearly two years and for the first time has released a video to show it. The ...

The Pentagon has been testing swarms of low-cost surveillance and attack drones engineered to jam enemy air defenses, blanket areas with small sensors or function as attack weapons, DoD officials said ...