Unmanned aerial drone market shifting from large to small UAVs: the Mil & Aero video blog

May 19, 2014
THE MIL & AERO VIDEO BLOG, 19 May 2014. Pilotless aircraft still dominate the unmanned vehicles market, but applications appear to be shifting away from large unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for military applications and toward small UAVs for a wide variety of civil applications like agriculture, first responders, and oil and gas pipeline inspections.

THE MIL & AERO VIDEO BLOG, 19 May 2014. Pilotless aircraft still dominate the unmanned vehicles market, but applications appear to be shifting away from large unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for military applications and toward small drones for a wide variety of civil applications like agriculture, first responders, and oil and gas pipeline inspections.

Military & Aerospace Electronics Editor John Keller reports in this video blog from the floor of last week's Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) conference and trade show in Orlando, Fla.

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John Keller | Editor

John Keller is editor-in-chief of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine, which provides extensive coverage and analysis of enabling electronic and optoelectronic technologies in military, space, and commercial aviation applications. A member of the Military & Aerospace Electronics staff since the magazine's founding in 1989, Mr. Keller took over as chief editor in 1995.

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