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 ...

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. — 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 ...

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 Office of Naval Research (ONR) has revealed that it has been conducting demonstrations of swarming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at various locations over the past month. The demonstrations were ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) released a video showcasing the U.S. Navy’s latest technology for conducting autonomous warfare: LOCUST, or the Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarming ...