Commercial drone flights ‘years away’
Widespread use of commercial drones is likely to take significantly longer than many proponents of the budding industry anticipate, according to U.S. and Canadian...
The Paris AirShow creates international cooperation
The Paris AirShow is meant, among other things, to offer a chance for business interactions between the many production companies in the world aerial...
UK Police To Deploy Drone-Jamming Tech At Major Events
British police is planning to use sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection and jamming technology at major public events at risk of terrorist attack....
IR-eyed Drone For Search-and-Rescue
Getting lost while hiking can turn out bad, really bad. Search-and-rescue statistics show that you’re twice as likely to die if you get lost...
Intel Offers New Drone for Use of Software Developers
Intel unveiled a new ready-to-fly drone, Aero, a quadcopter aimed at software developers rather than casual hobbyists or commercial drone operators.
Intel’s drone is a...
DARPA Developing Unique Use of UASs in Swarm
The US agency DARPA (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) has recently announced the completion of phase 1 in its Gremlins program, which envisions...
New Drone Detection System for Urban Environments
In recent years, Singapore has been showing a deep interest in the drone business, and more specifically drone detection. The country has acquired an...
New Versions of Iconic Drones Showcased
Advanced features have been recently introduced into familiar drone models, allowing lower noise flight, increased flight time and more advanced photography capabilities. Drone manufacturer DJI...
Russia is Developing a “UAV-Killer” Defense System
Russia is upgrading its short-range Pantsir-S air defense systems with an improved capability to intercept unmanned aerial vehicles, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
“The modernization...
New: UAV-based Wireless Communications
Missions in remote, forward operating locations often suffer from a lack of connectivity to tactical operation centers and access to valuable intelligence, surveillance, and...
Israeli academic institutions shoulder the development efforts focusing on Robotic solutions...
Israel's universities and institutes have teams developing various robots which will be capable of travelling across tunnels, overcome barriers and map their surroundings.
The last...
Turkey’s defense projects slowed down without Israel’s support
By ARIE EGOZI
The severance of the defense ties between Turkey and Israel is causing problems for some major Turkish programmes, as seems from reports...
Drones Now Smuggling Drugs
Something strange is hapening at the Walton prison in England. It appears that a drone has crashed into the prison’s fence which raised concerns...
Anti-Drone Rifle Serves US Troops in Iraq
The advent and proliferation of small, cheap drones has had a lasting effect on the battlefields of the 21st century, where the devices have...
French Surveillance UAVs to Get Advanced Radar Capabilities
The French Forces will use new radars for their Patroller Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Leonardo will supply its PicoSAR AESA radars to Safran Electronics...
New UAV for Testing and Evaluation – Also for Manned Missions
The QF-16 drone for testing and evaluation missions took its first flight at Holloman Air Force Base, USA recently. The manned mission was the...
The Future is Here – iHLS Future Forces Conference Attracted Attention
Defense industry leaders and officials participated at the conference and exhibition organized by iHLS on Future Forces.
At the annual conference held for the fourth...
New UAS Flight App Enhances Situational Awareness
UAS users can now make decisions about flight safety more in a more informed way.
A partnership between AirMap and Kespry will result in...
The Heron-1, flying in Afghanistan non stop
At the beginning of July, Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) Heron 1 unmanned air systems (UAS) logged its 15,000th operational flight hour in Afghanistan.
The three...
AUS&R 2013 Air Show Update: Live Display, Part 1
The Heron UAV circled above the Superland lake. To the right, above the crowd, floated the Light Eye observation balloon, while on the ground...
U.S. DARPA Develops Advanced Drone Communications
Unmanned systems 2014 – U.S. research agency DARPA is developing an advanced UAV communications system that will enable reliable, continuous and high quality transfer...
Drones to Replace Human Infrastructure Inspectors
The days of observing hundreds of miles of oil pipeline from a plane or dangling 200 feet in the air from a wind tower...
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