A few days after the first images emerged of Strike Eagles carrying four or six LAU-131 pods for drone-hunting missions, U.S.

Northrop Grumman’s long history with unusually shaped vehicles dates back to its N-1M flying wing planes of 1940, and that provenance has been realized in the U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Spirit and ... a ...

Table 4: Global Tactical UAV Market (by ... The Integrator VTOL was capable of launching vertically on ships or land without compromising payload capacity or endurance. The system maintained the ...

Although this isn’t the first fixed wing UAS test on a British aircraft carrier, the systems tested before were much smaller and lighter. “The Mojave trial is a European first – the first ...

ABSTRACT Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer the best aerodynamic efficiency ...

Generally speaking though, once a drone was built a certain way (like say as a fixed-wing aircraft or a VTOL), you can't easily change the way the machine departs for a mission or comes back from it.