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Hummingbird-sized drones may be the Army’s next big thing

November 8, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Featured Image: Green Violet-ear Hummingbird– Finca Lerida, Boquete, Panama. CREDIT: Charlesjsharp SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons This file is licensed under the Creative Commons).

From youtube uploaded by RT America

Published on Nov 8, 2013

The Black Hornet is a small, flying object, weighing just over half an ounce. It may look cute, but it’s not a toy. It’s a drone. The Black Hornet was unveiled last week at the Association of the United States Army Expo in Washington, DC. The drone is marketed as a tool that soldiers can carry with them. While the US Army hasn’t used the hummingbird-sized drone yet, the British Army has used them in Afghanistan. RT’s Ameera David takes a closer look at the miniscule flying object.

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Surveillance drones and Uncle Sam: Hackers take on all at DefCon 21 (Video Report)

August 8, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Featured Image: Dev Con 21 logo. SOURCE devcon.org

From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica

Published on Aug 7, 2013

Around 15,000 hackers and security experts descended on Las Vegas for the twenty-first annual DefCon last week to discuss the latest and greatest exploits and vulnerabilities targeting seemingly anything and everything.  . . . From description of video.

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First commercial drones to start flying this summer (Video Report)

July 30, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Featured Image: A U.S. Drone. CREDIT: U.S.Air Force. (Public-Domain).

From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica

Published on Jul 29, 2013

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) sent two letters to FBI Director Robert Mueller asking for the agency to explain its domestic drone program as well as the policies behind it. Assistant Director for the Office of Congressional Affairs, Stephen Kelly, responded to the lawmaker’s request saying that “every request to use UAV’s must be approved by senior FBI management and without a warrant the FBI will not use a UAV.” Also on Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration approved drones to be used for civilian use, and RT speaks with Michael Brooks, producer of The Majority Report, about drones.
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The Resident: Americans too good for drones (Video Report) (+) FAA WARNS AMERICANS: DON’T SHOOT AT THE DRONES

July 21, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Featured Image: Unmanned aerial vehicle control station. SOURCE: Wikipedia (Public-Domain).

From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica on Jul 21, 2013

The Resident: Americans too good for drones

From The Blaze Jul. 19, 2013 11:59pm 

FAA WARNS AMERICANS: DON’T SHOOT AT THE DRONES

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — Don’t even think about it. People who fire guns at drones are endangering the public and property and could be prosecuted or fined, the Federal Aviation Administration warned Friday.

The FAA released a statement in response to questions about an ordinance under consideration in the tiny farming community of Deer Trail, Colorado that would encourage hunters to shoot down the flying aircraft. The administration reminded the public that it regulates the nation’s airspace, including the airspace over cities and towns.

A drone “hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons or property on the ground, or it could collide with other objects in the air,” the statement said. “Shooting at an unmanned aircraft could result in criminal or civil liability, just as would firing at a manned airplane.” . . . Read Complete Report

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The Resident: US to arm border drones? (Video Report)

July 9, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Russian troops in America, FEMA  camps, a president who refuses to proof who he is, arming drones over America…. we are in dire straights.

Conspiratorial thought: What if the planned armed drones to be deployed along the U.S./Mexican border are not planned to stop the drugs crossing from Mexico into the U.S. but will be deployed when Americans try to cross over into Mexico to escape the coming clamp-down on all of America’s freedoms.   Mexico is probably looking good to many freedom loving people.. at least in Mexico you know what kind of government you’ll have . . . EDITOR

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Published on Jul 8, 2013

According to a US Customs and Border Protection report obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the US is leaving the door open to add weapons to its drones patrolling its borders. Currently, customs has eight drones patrolling its northern and southern borders, and it also has two patrolling the Caribbean. Apparently, the US has no intention of slowing or curbing its ever-expanding drone program. The Resident (aka Lori Harfenist) discusses. Follow The Resident athttp://www.twitter.com/TheResident
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ONGOING: FBI admits to drones Surveilling Americans (Video Report)

June 22, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Featured image:  Obama signs bill authorizing 30000 drones over america SOURCE: Unknown (Fair use).

February 11, 2012

From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica

Published on Jun 19, 2013

Outgoing FBI Director Robert Muller made history at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today. For the first time ever, an FBI official has gone on the record to acknowledge the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in American airspace for surveillance. . . . Part of intro uploaded with the video.

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Congress gets mixed advice on regulating drones

May 17, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Featured Image: A U.S. Drone. CREDIT: U.S.Air Force (Public-Domain).

From Phys.Org  39 minutes ago by Henry C. Jackson

(AP)—The growing use of unmanned surveillance “eyes in the sky” aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but the U.S. Congress is getting mixed advice on what, if anything, to do about it.
A future with domestic drones may be inevitable. While civilian drone use is currently limited to government agencies and some public universities, a law passed by Congress last year requires the  to allow widespread drone flights in the U.S. by 2015. According to FAA estimates, as many as 7,500 civilian drones could be in use within five years. . . . Read Complete Report


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Drones to deliver beer to concertgoers (Video Report)

May 9, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Featured Image: A big, frosty mug of beer. SOURCE: wpclipart.com (Public Domain)

I knew there had to be some kind of GOOD use for all those drones. . . EDITOR

From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica·

Published on May 8, 2013

The OppiKoppi festival in South Africa is planning on offering concertgoers the option of remotely ordering brews. . . . From description published with video.

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Alex Jones: Seriously! DHS Testing Gun Detecting Drones (Video Report)

April 10, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

From youtube uploaded by  TheAlexJonesChannel

Published on Apr 10, 2013

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is testing a wide variety of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) sensor platforms, including one that can determine whether individuals are armed or unarmed, for use by first responders and frontline homeland security professionals.

The testing is taking place at the Oklahoma Training Center for Unmanned Systems (OTC-UC), a unit of University Multispectral Laboratories (UML), a not-for-profit scientific institution operated for Oklahoma State University (OSU) by Anchor Dynamics, Inc. UML is a “Trusted Agent” for the federal government, technology developers and operators. http://www.wnd.com/wnd_video/dhs-test…

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UPDATE: Better Eyes for Flying Robots (+) MAV’s -Micro Air Vehicles, Mini-Spy & Attack Drones (Video Report)

April 3, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Photo: Micro Air Vehicle. United States Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth-G.-Takada SOURCE Wikipedia (Public Domain)

From IEEE Spectrum 

New systems could improve the vision of micro aerial vehicles

By RACHEL COURTLAND  /  APRIL 2013

Aerial robotics research has brought us flapping hummingbirds, seagulls,bumblebees, and dragonflies. But if these robots are to do anything more than bear a passing resemblance to their animal models, there is one thing they’ll definitely need: better vision.

In February, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, two teams presented new work (PDF) aimed at building better-performing and lower-power vision systems that would help aerial robots navigate and aid them in identifying objects. 
. . . Read Complete Report

From youtube updated by GlobalPrison

MAV’s -Micro Air Vehicles, Mini-Spy & Attack Drones

Published on Feb 21, 2013

The MAV project is designed for surveillence, possible targetting/laser tagging and possible attack/assassination of specific areas and individuals…

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