AirMap debuts digital map for UAV operators
AirMap, a free, comprehensive digital map that allows unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operators to visualize the airspace around them, has recently been made available...
The New Research Assistant: UAV To Take Gas Samples
Since 1950 there has been a significant rise in greenhouse gas (Methane, Co2 and mostly Carbon Dioxide) in the atmosphere, influenced by accelerated industrial...
US Creating Drone Registry Plan In Response To Safety, Security Concerns
As part of the U.S. aviation authorities’ effort to tackle the growing safety and security problems posed by drones, U.S. drone will soon be...
Why Are Drone Schools Popping Up Around China?
Like with other industries, once China entered the drone market it quickly became the world’s largest and most prolific drone manufacturer. They make everything...
Police Drones Vulnerable to Hijacking
We’ve have written at length on these pages about the dismal state of security in most consumer-grade tech products. For many manufacturers, it seems,...
Delivering Medical Samples, UAVs Save Lives
Michigan-based Vayu, Inc. made history when it completed the first ever series of long-range, fully autonomous drone flights with blood and stool samples this...
Turkish Competition Also to Israel – in Anti-UAV Defense
Turkey developed a fully integrated air defense system to detect, track and disrupt any illegal activity of small and micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)...
Secret Russian UAV Spotted by Google Maps
A large UAV was clearly seen on aerospace photos of the Google Maps web mapping service application, the Military Russia informational website reported. According...
Guidelines for UAS Operation
Recent US government-sponsored research provides operators of small UAS helpful guidance for legally operating in proximity to manned aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA)...
Interesting Partner for US Military
An innovative group of engineers is designing and building a futuristic aircraft in a small airfield near the US capital. The engineering firm, Aurora...
Turkish Suicide Drone Ready for Operative Use
A suicide drone developed by a Turkish company has become operational. Ismail Demir, the Turkish Undersecretary of Defense Industry (SSM) and Chairman of Defense...
The Company Propelling the Development of Next-Gen Unmanned Systems
WindRiver, the company that has been supplying software products to the international aviation market for 30 years now, and is an Intel subsidiary, is...
Israeli Company Designs Special Systems for the UAS Industry
We tend to forget that underneath their sleek hulls, UAVs and other unmanned systems are complex machines which depend on their individual components. The...
Big Brother in Britain: Police UAVs
The trend is clear- Police forces want UASs for performing their mission. Recently the Sussex police in England began to use a small UAS to...
The ArrowLite UAS is offered to special units
Stark Aerospace has just unveiled its ArrowLitehand launched, single operator tactical UAS. The new ArrowLite mini unmanned air system (UAS) is being offered to...
An Israeli made UAS operational in Singapore
The Elbit Systems Hermes-450 UAS (unmanned aerial system) operated by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), has reached full, operational status.
According to a report in...
More UAVs for the Israeli Air Force
The number of unmanned air vehicles (UAV) operated by the Israeli air force (IAF) will grow in the near future. This is a result...
USA To Launch Even More Drone Attacks
The American Ministry of Defense has announced several days ago that it has decided to increase the number of daily attacks by unmanned aerial...
AUS&R 2015 Is Firing Up
AUS&R 2015 has opened this morning in the LAGO events center in Rishon Letzion. Thousands of participants from Israel and abroad are arriving to...
China Attempts To Get Fighter Engines, UAV
China attempted to acquire advanced US fighter aircraft engines and a UAV, according to US Federal Court documents unsealed last week.
A Chinese man and...
Soon: Rustom-II UAV to be Tested in India
The first flight of India's new combat-capable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Rustom-II is scheduled to be held by the end of July in Chitradurga...
New Kit Transforms Drones into Testing Environment
The French company Parrot has launched a development kit for designing advanced applications for drones. Just attach the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)...
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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...
