UAV

UAV

blockchain technology

Blockchain technology will help secure unmanned aircraft deliveries. The retail company Wal-Mart recently applied for a patent application entitled “Unmanned aerial delivery to secure...
drones

A Pentagon effort to develop businesses in Silicon Valley may be bearing some of its first fruit, as a San Diego company rolls out...
air target drone

A new air target drone with enhanced capabilities will be unveiled soon. "The new project has embodied the best experience of the batch-produced aircraft...
mine detection

During a recent technology demonstration, a new way to detect buried and submerged mines was unveiled. Dr. Rosemarie Oelrich, a scientist at Naval Surface...
anti-ICBM

Unmanned aerial vehicles have gained wider presence in the laser weapon realm. Now, the US is looking to field a laser-armed unmanned aircraft to...
refueling tankers

US Navy carriers will be upgraded in order to be prepared to carry unmanned refueling tankers. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) and USS...
UAV fuel

A team of MIT engineers has come up with an economical UAV design that can hover for long durations to provide wide-ranging communications support...
emergency

New wireless technologies that are designed to assist emergency responders were tested recently at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington. Several organizations partnered together to...
deep learning

Researchers have developed a new approach to heavy computation, using light instead of electricity, which they say could vastly improve the speed and efficiency...
drone range

One disadvantage to drones of the fixed-wing variety, that can travel very long distances, is the space needed to launch them, along with some...

A new distance record has been achieved by un unmanned aerial vehicle. France’s electricity company RTE and Delair-Tech have set a new distance record...
solar UAV

China's largest unmanned solar-powered aircraft has recently set a domestic record by reaching an altitude of more than 20,000 meters during a secretive test...
US Air Force

The secretive US Air Force Boeing X-37B orbital unmanned spacecraft has recently landed at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility following an extended...
multifunction payloads

Today, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) typically require multiple payloads with dedicated components, including antennas, radio frequency (RF) circuitry, and processors, to conduct communications, radar,...
המראה ונחיתה אנכית

A new unique unmanned aerial system was recently revealed. The Tilt Rotor, Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL), hydrogen fuel cell powered advanced terrain mapping...
electronic warfare

More electronic warfare (EW) technologies have emerged as a counter unmanned aerial systems weapon. Recently, Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) successfully showcased its SkyCAP counter...
micro UAV

A stealth Micro UAV has been showcased for the first time. The companies Desert Wolf and FLIR have brought the Black Hornet micro unmanned...
photo illust. stinger

During a recent US Army test, a pair of Raytheon Stinger anti-air missiles equipped with new proximity fuzes intercepted two small unmanned airborne systems—an...
beyond line of sight

beyond line of sightSurveillance missions and the monitoring of critical infrastructures and installations through Unmanned Aerial Vehicles often require flight beyond the visual line...
information gathering

A new information gathering technology will be used for the first time with US Navy unmanned vehicle systems to improve how information is gathered...
UAV market

By ARIE EGOZI Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become a very important item in the defense shopping lists of countries around the world. The number of...
UAV

  Scientists and engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) presented 16 technology research projects in various stages of maturity during the second biennial...