Just like how locust swarms can cause devastating natural disasters, the U.S. Navy’s Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) drones could devastate adversaries. A fitting acronym, the Navy’s LOCUST ...

ONR’s (Office of Naval Research) LOCUST (LOw-Cost Unmanned aerial vehicle Swarming Technology) test system uses cooperative tube-launched drones. The Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) LOCUST (LOw-Cost ...

With a chittering of wings and a flickering of antennae, the locusts buzzed into position. Released from their cage, the swarm buzzed across the road, senses tuned and trained to the scent of TNT.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — A new era in autonomy and unmanned systems for naval operations is on the horizon, as officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced today recent technology ...

In the near future, those who find themselves the target of the US Navy could be attacked by a swarm of miniature drones as part of a new programme being developed called LOCUST. Standing for Low-Cost ...

Armed forces around the world are looking to machines to change how wars are won. Inside the War Fighting Lab, the Marine Corps is developing remote-controlled land-based robots and aerial drones that ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy has begun demonstrating swarming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of the service’s Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) program. Officials at the Office of ...

The US Navy is demonstrating a development version of a system to launch an autonomous swarm of drones for a variety of missions. A system to launch and co-ordinate a swarm of small, cheap drones is ...

The days of enormous, singular UAVs directly controlled by remote pilots may be coming to an end. Over the last few years, there's been a lot work towards developing smaller drones capable of ...

A demonstration to show whether autonomous, swarming small unmanned aircraft can overwhelm an adversary more cost-effectively than conventional weapon systems is planned for fiscal 2016 by the Office ...