New Approach to Drone Technology
The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is partnering with the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office to create a new organization dedicated to advancing drone technology....
How to Keep Drones Away from No-Fly Zones?
Drones proliferation poses a grave threat to vital infrastructure and government facilities. With a great many no-go zones that aren't clearly delineated, drones or...
International Convention of Autonomous Unmanned Systems and Robotics (AUS&R)
International Convention of Autonomous Unmanned Systems and Robotics
AUS&R 26-28/11/2013
Highlighting past, present and future aspects of unmanned systems, and their use in military,...
Made in Israel: Tiny Eyes in the Sky
CONTROP, a manufacturer of electro-optic systems for defense, is presenting a new technological breakthrough at the upcoming DEFEXPO 2014 in New Delhi, India: A...
Ireland: Aviation body has issued 22 drone permits
The Irish Aviation Authority has issued permits to 22 operators to use drones or unmanned air systems (UAS) in the Republic.
The UAS sanctioned by the authority...
Unmanned Military Systems: Formulating Policy
How should the State of Israel ready itself ahead of the advent of unmanned systems and the expanding uses and applications thereof?
Though Israel constitutes...
UAV Attacks on Terror Organizations – The Other Side
Unmanned aerial vehicles have changed the way the battlefield works nowadays. UAVs have brought man a safer battlefield and allowed different armies to better...
Risk From Small Drones Overblown, Research Shows
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been pushing for strong regulations to be put in place to protect commercial and private aeroplanes from...
Navigation System for Driverless Cars – Alternative to GPS
A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals...
Unmanned Missile Defense Platform Sought
An unmanned air system (UAS) is sought by the US as a missile defense platform, with the payload and range capability of today’s manned...
“Suicide” drones for the US Army
Are tube-fired “suicide” drones the new pocket artillery that will give dismounted troops a smaller footprint and a longer reach? Developers of lethal miniature...
UAE Drone Maker Plans to Convert Russian Superlight Choppers into UCAVs
ADCOM, an unmanned systems developer from the UAE is teaming with the Russian helicopter designer Berkut Aero design bureau to turn the Russian designed...
New Spy UAV – Too Fast for Radar
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works is proposing a replacement for the SR-71 spy plane The SR-72, is a Mach 6 drone that doesn't need to...
Marine Corps Testing Black Jack Drone
The U.S. Marine Corps is testing a new 135-pound, catapult-launched UAS that can take off from an amphibious assault ship and climb to 15,000...
A World Breakthrough in UAV Propulsion
A cooperation between Israel and Singapore has resulted in a breakthrough in powering unmanned air systems. "This will change the world of UAVs and...
Drones Aid U.N. Peacekeeping Missions in Africa
More and more, drones are flying over some of the toughest peacekeeping missions in the world, improving the United Nations’ intelligence-gathering capability, but also...
Iran unveils latest home-made drone, Ababil 3
Iran has unveiled its latest domestically-manufactured state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which can be used in reconnaissance operations.
The Ababil 3 has a flight endurance...
Canada wants advanced UAV’s.
Canada wants advanced UAV's. After years of delays, the Canadian military is rebooting its attempt to buy a fleet of UAVs for domestic and...
NASA and Google to create an air-traffic control system for UAVs
Google is partnering with NASA and 13 other companies, including Amazon and Verizon, to create an air-traffic control system for drones, called the Unmanned...
Small Israeli Developed Radar To Detect UAVs
The growing problem of UAVs, drones and quadcopters in the urban aerial traffic calls for monitoring and controlling in order to prevent any future...
Drones Can Now Sniff Out Bombs
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have brought out a new tool in the fight against terrorism: bomb sniffing drones. The team took existing...
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...
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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...
