Drones Deployed to Eurotunnel In Fear of Migrants Surge
Drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras are being deployed on the French side of the Channel Tunnel to track asylum seekers attempting to cross...
Bayraktar UAV Now Deployed By Turkish Police
The Turkish National Police is now putting the Bayraktar TB2 Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) into service. Consisting of three UAVs and ground control...
Drones For the French Army: The Competition Intensifies
Polish WB Group company, in collaboration with the French Safran company, offers the FlyEye UAV to the French Army, within the framework of the...
New Technology Offers To “Grow” Aircrafts
A radical new machine called a Chemputer could enable advanced chemical processes to grow aircraft and some of their complex electronic systems in weeks...
UK Considers Training UAV Pilots On Its Own
The UK is due to purchase in excess of 20 new Reaper-derived Certifiable Predator B UAVs, and is considering introducing its own training system...
Growing Number Of Drone-Plane Near-Misses
The Mirror reports that British airline pilots have over the first six months of 2016 reported dozens of near-miss incidents with unmanned aircraft. According...
Tethered Antenna UAV For Improved Communication
Radio networks are a trusted technology, but it could become even better with the aid of tethered high antenna unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAS...
Big Demand For IAI’s BirdEye 650D UAV
A number of armies negotiate the purchase of the BirdEye 650D from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) .
The small Tactical UAV has capabilities that are very...
MTCR – Out Of Touch With Reality
By ARIE EGOZI
The world is changing fast and some agreements that looked appropriate in the past are no longer valid.
One good example is the...
India Wants Predators, Technological Cooperation
India is looking to acquire a few Predator drones from the US, Defense News reports. Just days after India Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited...
Iraqi Forces Use Consumer Drones Against ISIS
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) bring many advantages to the battlefield. One of the main ones is the ability to safely surveil enemy positions. Military...
Israel’s IAI, Elbit Join Japan’s Mitsubishi, Fuji For UAV Research
Israel Aerospace Industries, Elbit Systems of Israel and Mitsubishi Electric, Fuji Heavy Industries of Japan are the companies included in the joint research on...
Airbus Predicts Growth In UAV Market
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market is on a brink of a growth explosion, according to Airbus Defence and Space. The defence manufacturing giant...
Lockheed Demonstrates Anti-UAV Radar Capabilities
Now that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are prevalent, the need for reliable and effective anti-UAV systems is becoming more urgent. We have written about...
New App Allows For Thorough Drone Detection
There are apps for everything. Flashlights, sharing photos, talking with your friends – if you can think of it, there’s probably already an app...
US To Cut Troops In Afghanistan, Double Drones
The United States is looking to reduce its man presence in Afghanistan, and instead “the Air Force aims to double the number of drone...
WATCH: Autonomous Helicopter Operated With Tablet
Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has successfully demonstrated autonomous flight capabilities of its Sikorsky S-76 commercial helicopter at its Stratfod, Connecticut testing facility. With this,...
China’s First Emergency UAV Rescue Team
Earlier this month, China has launched the first-in-the-country emergency rescue team that will use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Beijing Daily reports.
Six UAVs are now...
Predator B Big Wing Concludes Longest Endurance Flight Yet
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has recently announced the longest endurance flight of the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Big Wing aircraft, a next-generation derivative of the...
Campcopter Returns To Refugee Rescue Support
For the third year running, Vienna-based Schiebel Group’s CAMCOPTER S-100 will be providing substantial support operations for the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) project,...
Drone Video Boosts Apache Capabilities
Apache helicopters are already the beasts of the sky. They are powerful, ominous, and incredibly deadly. The US Army wasn’t content with that and...
GPS Anti-Jamming Comes To UAVs
As unmanned aerial systems (UAVs) grow in popularity, so do the worries about them. In response, several anti-drone systems have hit the market, including...
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