military drones

When United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) last October made its first medical delivery by drone, it may have finally begun what drone advocates have been touting for a decade — a new era when unmanned flights may become just as normal as those in aircraft with pilots. There are a couple of...

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and reconnaissance for both military and commercial clients, boasts a "pipeline of opportunities" the likes of which haven't been seen in 10 years of coverage of the company, according to...

The U.S. deployment of attack drones in the tense Korean theater is a symbol of not only the role unmanned aircraft are playing in the so-called war on terror, but a sign of a rapidly evolving and increasingly competitive defense market dependent on robot warfare. Business, as they say, is booming...