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A new field manual for tankers drew online chuckles. But it puts the threat of drones on the battlefield at the center of ...

Ukraine's new "Horoshok," or pea, round breaks into pellets mid-air, allowing soldiers to shoot down drones using their existing rifles.

LOS ANGELES , June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — E3 Expo –Parrot, leaders in wireless peripherals for mobile phones, revolutionised the video gaming world by creating the AR.Drone, the first flying object in ...

Berlin-based developer Diego Araos was able to connect an Oculus Rift headset to a Parrot AR drone and actually control it by simply moving his head. The whole thing was recorded and posted on ...

The Parrot AR.Drone is a unique quadcopter with mobile device controls and real-time streaming from its 2MP camera, but its short flight time and other quirks make it more of a curiosity than a ...

Parrot’s Bebop drone provides first-person control courtesy of a Wi-Fi-linked, digitally stabilized, HD camera. Vanessa Loury, PR Director for Parrot, provides further details about the Bebop Drone.

The Parrot AR Drone is a high-tech, ultra lightweight, remote-controlled quadricopter, a helicopter with four rotors. A remote-controlled quadricopter is pretty cool, but one that streams HD video ...

Teardown.com analysts have recently performed a teardown of the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 – GPS Edition and found that the $349.99 drone has a BOM cost of $137, including the GPS Flight Recorder.