New Counter-Terror Drones Revealed
Two specialist UAVs designed specifically for counter-terror operations were showcased by the French company CM Drones at a recent international exhibition. The company promoted...
New Restrictions on Drone Flight
New rules from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will soon restrict drone flight over military bases across the US. The updated regulations prohibit flights...
Elite Units Trying to Get Ahead in The UAV Game
With more technologically advanced UAVs flying than ever, military leaders are starting to rethink the way they look at air superiority. The case is...
Familiar Member of US Navy UAV Fleet Receives Facelift
The U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, has completed formal lab testing and a successful first flight of an improved software...
Acronyms – The Technology Forces a Change
By Arie Egozi
The world is changing fast and defense technologies and the rules that are meant to control them are also very flexible.
This fact...
Military Drone Market in for An Earthquake?
China, the largest exporter of military drones currently, is ready to place a new model on the international market. The TYW-1, developed by one...
Drones to be Sent to Mars
The use of rovers has promoted the research of Mars greatly, but traveling at a rate of about 16 km every four and half...
Drone Development Could Revolutionize First Responders Communication
A new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will serve as a cell tower for the benefit of users such as first responders. Fenix Group has...
Drone-Based EW System Will Hijack Phones
A Russian military drone-based electronic-warfare system is aiming to hi-jack phones. The Leer-3 RB-341V combines jammers and UAVs in order to disable cellular networks,...
Nano-UAV – ISR Capabilities Right from Combat Vest Pocket
A new version of a military nano-UAV has been under development. FLIR's Prox Dynamics unit is in the process of developing a new version...
New UAV Can Carry Heavy Payload
A new UAV with the ability of up to two hours of continuous flying time and capable of carrying a payload of up to...
Unexpected Drone and Laser Experiment Site
A UAS-mounted laser system will be used to measure water depth. The system will be tested at the Jeremiah Denton airport on Dauphin Island,...
Voice Recognition Technology – Applied by Law Enforcement Teams
Drones fitted with facial recognition cameras and software programmed to recognise an individual’s voice in Arabic are some of the technologies that law enforcement...
Terrorist Liquidated with the Help of Drone?
The U.S. Department of Defense has recently confirmed that a U.S. counter-terrorism airstrike conducted March 19 in Afghanistan, resulted in the death of Qari...
Tackling The Line-of-Sight Obstacle
Solutions for navigating drones beyond the visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) has been the target of many research and development efforts. Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has...
UAV to Overthrow The Reigning Spy-Plane King?
Northrop Grumman began testing an advanced, multispectral sensor aboard its RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV, moving the high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft closer to achieving the...
Chinese UAVs to Be Built in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) signed a partnership agreement covering the manufacture of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with the...
US Marines Enhancing Their UAVs Swarm Capabilities
The Marines have been boosting the development of UAVs swarm capabilities, using the manned-unmanned airlift concept.
The Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarming Technology, also known...
South Korea Responding to Rising Drone Operator Demand
South Korea is planning to train 1,700 drone operators a year to meet the growing demand in the commercial drone industry, the transport ministry...
Iran Supplies Aerial Attack Drones to Yemen’s Rebels
Drones loaded with explosives are on their way to Middle Eastern rebels. Iran has transferred so-called kamikaze aerial attack drones technology to Yemen’s Houthi...
AR/VR Technologies As Threat Modeling Tools
Augmented reality and virtual reality have the potential to serve as threat modeling tools that could enhance security professionals’ understanding of the threat landscape...
China Attempts to Break American Drone Monopoly
A new large-scale solar-powered UAV could break the American monopoly in this class of unmanned aerial vehicles. The UAV, produced by the China Academy...
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This Combat Robot Just Fired Anti-Tank Missiles During Live Trials
Integrating heavy weapons onto compact robotic ground vehicles has become a growing focus for modern militaries, but the engineering challenge is significant. Small unmanned...
