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The smallest aircraft in the National Guard's aviation fleet, the RQ-11 Raven, displayed huge potential as one of the National Guard's newest damage assessment and reconnaissance tools during the 2008 Vigilant Guard emergency preparedness exercise.
The hundreds of drones cruising over Iraq and Afghanistan have changed war forever. The UAV is the "smart bomb" of the Iraq War, the latest turn in the unending offense-defense spiral that characterizes the history of warfare. Army units searching and fighting house-to-house are using hundreds of drones, some of them as small as a model airplane (the Raven), to track enemy movements.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have changed the face of war. The RQ-11 Raven is the lightest and smallest of the lot-weighing 4.2 pounds and boasting a wingspan of 4.5 feet. The Raven has become a popular way of tracking insurgents planting IEDs in Iraq.
The U.S. Army's Raven UAV (RQ-11A) flew 150,000 hours of combat missions last year (mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan), and nearly 300,000 hours are expected this year. So far, over 9,000 Ravens have been delivered or are on order. So successful has the Raven been, that the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Marine Corps have adopted it (in place of similar UAVs they had been using).
Based on results of the initial phase, DARPA selected AeroVironment to continue developing its Nano Air Vehicle design. The continuing design effort by AeroVironment, which will be completed in less than six months, will focus on further development of critical aspects of their flapping wing concept.
Unmanned aerial vehicles, Defense Secretary Gates said, can give ground commanders instantaneous information about what they're facing - such as a live look at someone planting an improvised explosive device miles down the road a convoy is using - without putting pilots or ground-based scouts at risk.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - The demands of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are behind a new push by the Pentagon to increase the ranks of one of its most tireless fighting machines: remote-controlled attack aircraft called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs.
Goldman Sachs said Tuesday they expect a Barack Obama presidency would cut into earnings for many military contractors by reducing funding for large weapon platforms in favor of increasing soldier recruitment.
When Army patrol leaders in Iraq prepare to go out on missions in Baghdad, their last stop at headquarters is a computerized map on which they outline the area where they will operate. Then they watch as icons emerge, showing, in grim detail, the lurking dangers.
