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For the first time in history an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, otherwise known as a drone, has completed an arrested landing on a U.S. Navy aircraft

While not many of us were noticing, the U.S. Navy was off the coast of Virginia on Tuesday, changing the game of naval aviation forever.

(Reuters) – The Navy plans to carry out the first catapult takeoff of its new X-47B unmanned plane from an aircraft carrier next month and other

As China starts landing jets on its first aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy is preparing to test take offs and landings of carrier-based unmanned aircraft, a

The U.S. Navy said today that it is grounding its anti-piracy fleet of helicopter drones following two recent but “unrelated operational mishaps”.

By Grace Jean, Office of Naval Research ARLINGTON, Va.— Navy unmanned aircraft will be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels when an

Drone aircraft, officially called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are just starting to be used to spot, identify, scare pirates away, and prevent hostage

For the last few weeks, in the Ionian Sea to the southeast of Sicily, three gliders participated for the first time in an anti-submarine warfare exercise.

Just think of the opportunities if every Coast Guard boat station and cutter had it’s own fixed wing aircraft and could initiate search and rescue

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has been a popular topic of discussion here at gCaptain and has been associated with a variety uses ranging from

Click to read Part 1 of this Post: 10 Anti-Piracy Weapons For Use In Somalia Last year gCaptain brought you Anti-Piracy Weapons – Top 10 For Future Use

After making my decision to pursue a life at sea and accept an invitation to study in Annapolis my father said, “The Navy practices while the Coast Guard

gCaptain mariners have been critical of Captain Paul Watson and his crew of non-professional mariners, stars of the reality TV show Whale Wars. Most of the

We’ve talked about Unmanned Aerial Vehicals (UAV’s) here before on gCaptain particularly associated with piracy off the horn of Africa.  Here is a

Here is a collection of photos taken from this past week’s Maersk Alabama piracy incident.  The images and descriptions are provided the U.S. Navy. 

Since World War II air dominance has played a critical role in successful military operations, are anti-piracy ops any

Map Via Eaglespeak In a move back to the East Coast of Somalia the pirates have found success in their search for another prize the size of the Sirius