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NASA research gathers key radar data for autonomous air cargo delivery
Jun 07, 2023 (SPX)
As part of the agency's broad portfolio of work on Advanced Air Mobility, NASA researchers visited the Mountain View, California headquarters of industry partne...
Unleashing the power of intelligent drone swarms
Jun 06, 2023 (SPX)
As low-cost drones have proliferated worldwide, they are tasked with a variety of objectives, including remote sensing, situational awareness, material delivery...
Rights group accuses Nigeria army over civilian drone strike victims
Jun 06, 2023 (AFP)
The army eventually admitted ordering the strike near the town of Rukubi, in a central region known for ethnic and religious violence, that hit a group of herde...
How drone warfare has evolved in Ukraine
May 30, 2023 (AFP)
In recent months, invading Russian troops have sent waves of Iranian-made Shahed explosive drones at Kyiv and other major cities, while Ukraine has launched unm...
Russia, Ukraine trade drone attacks on capital cities
May 30, 2023 (UPI)
All eight apparent Ukrainian drones were intercepted, according to the Russian defense ministry, which said in a statement on Telegram that five were shot down ...
Kyiv repels air strikes, day after huge Russian bombardment
May 29, 2023 (AFP)
Local air defences managed to fend off more than 40 drones and cruise missiles, and there were no casualties, authorities said. Kyiv had been mostly spared sinc...
Kyiv defences repel Russian drone attack: officials
May 25, 2023 (AFP)
Military chiefs said Kyiv's air defences destroyed all of the drones during the three-hour air attack, the twelfth this month. Serhiy Popko, head of the city's ...
ETRI lays the groundwork for convenient and safe drone flight
May 24, 2023 (SPX)
The technology in focus is a drone distributed communication standard, which mitigates collision risk between drones. It facilitates the simultaneous operation ...
Military drones are swarming the skies of Ukraine and other conflicts
May 19, 2023 (SPX)
That is daily life in Ukraine, where pilotless vehicles known as drones litter the sky in an endless video gamelike - but actually very real - war with Russia. ...
Turkish drone kills three PKK-linked fighters: Iraqi Kurdish security
May 16, 2023 (AFP)
It is the latest deadly strike blamed on Turkey in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, where the PKK -- whose fighters are Turkish Kurds -- has rear bases. The ...
Russia fires 24 drones at Ukraine, 18 shot down: Ukrainian air force
May 04, 2023 (AFP)
"The invaders launched up to 24 Shahed-136/131 attack drones... The Air Force of Ukraine, in co-operation with other air defence units, shot down 18 attack dron...
Chinese 'scorpion' combat drone circles Taiwan
Apr 28, 2023 (AFP)
Democratic Taiwan lives under constant threat of an attack by Beijing, which views the island as part of its territory. Taiwan's defence ministry said it detect...
Drones navigate unseen environments with liquid neural networks
Apr 24, 2023 (SPX)
Inspired by the adaptable nature of organic brains, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a met...
Built to bounce back researchers design drones to cope with collisions
Apr 24, 2023 (SPX)
Advanced technology plays a vital role in these recovery operations. Thermal imaging equipment and sensitive listening devices are deployed to seek out signs of...
Iran army gets 200 new 'strategic' drones: state media
Apr 20, 2023 (AFP)
In a ceremony broadcast on television, Defence Minister Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani handed over "more than 200 long-range strategic drones" to army chief Abdolrahim ...
LIDS: A sure shot against drones
Apr 20, 2023 (SPX)
That's why these proven Raytheon capabilities are crucial components of the U.S. Army's integrated counter-UAS solution. It's called LIDS: the Low, slow, small,...
Turkey unveils its first drone carrier
Apr 10, 2023 (AFP)
The TCG Anadolu, which is 231 metres (758 feet) long and 32 metres (105 feet) wide, can accommodate combat helicopters and military drones, as well as up to 94 ...
New algorithm keeps drones from colliding in midair
Mar 30, 2023 (SPX)
To help avoid these costly crashes, MIT researchers presented a system called MADER in 2020. This multiagent trajectory-planner enables a group of drones to for...
Airbus achieves in-flight autonomous guidance and control of a drone from a tanker aircraft
Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)
In a first step towards Autonomous Formation Flight and Autonomous Air-to-Air refuelling (A4R), the technologies demonstrate a significant breakthrough for futu...
US Army selects Northrop Grumman and Shield AI team for tactical UAV prototype
Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)
Under a seven-week base period contract, the Northrop Grumman-led team will define the modular open-system architecture of an enhanced V-BAT aircraft, including...
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