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Cheap and nasty: Yemen's home-grown drones pose challenge for UAE
Jan 29, 2022 (AFP)
The low-tech weapons, which use over-the-counter parts, were deployed in two attacks on the wealthy Gulf state, a member of the Saudi-led coalition, the Iran-ba...
India caps week of military pageantry with drone show
Jan 29, 2022 (AFP)
A thousand aircraft flew in formation in the night skies above the capital New Delhi, flashing the saffron, white and green of the national flag, before rearran...
Northrop Grumman-Built MQ-8C Fire Scout Makes Operational Deployment with the US Navy
Jan 25, 2022 (SPX)
MQ-8C Fire Scout brings increased speed, endurance and payload capacity to maritime operations. The system provides operators 10+ hours of endurance and range o...
Airbus teams with Japan telcos to study connectivity services from high-altitude platforms
Jan 18, 2022 (SPX)
Launched with a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the study aims to identify the early deployment requirements of a HAPS-based network. The collaboration will ...
Defibrillator drone helps save Swedish heart attack patient
Jan 07, 2022 (AFP)
Emergency services dispatched the drone followed by an ambulance when Sven, a retiree who asked for his last name to be withheld, collapsed in early December wh...
Two drones shot down targeting Iraq base: anti-IS coalition
Jan 04, 2022 (AFP)
"Two fixed-wing drones rigged with explosives were engaged and destroyed by defensive capabilities at the Iraqi Al-Asad Air Base early this morning," the offici...
Australia's First MQ-4C Triton Takes Shape
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
"This production milestone further demonstrates our commitment to both sides of the cooperative program between the Royal Australian Air Force and the U.S. Navy...
China's high-flying drone giant DJI in US cross-hairs
Dec 17, 2021 (AFP)
Following are key facts about Shenzhen DJI Sciences and Technologies Ltd, better known around the world by drone users simply as DJI. - Born in a dorm - Company...
Drone war intensifies between Russia, Ukraine in latest strikes
Dec 16, 2021 (UPI)
Ukraine Air Force authorities claimed they shot down 30 out of 31 Iranian-made Shaheed drones coming from Russia that targeted various parts of the country on F...
Northrop Grumman Global Hawk to Expand Participation in SkyRange Program
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
The SkyRange program will equip the four high-altitude, long-endurance EQ-4 aircraft with sensors to demonstrate an alternative data collection support system t...
Armed with drones, Turkey explores African arms sales
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
The two-day Turkey-Africa partnership summit starting Friday comes fast on the heels of a top-level business forum in October that focused on investment and tra...
University of Guam Drone Corps produces first batch of FAA-certified drone pilots
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
Launched in April 2021, the Drone Corps is a combined effort from NASA Guam Space Grant and NASA Guam EPSCoR programs at the University of Guam to meet the dema...
OFFSET Swarms take flight in final field experiment
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
The program envisions future small-unit infantry forces employing large-scale teams of unmanned air and/or ground robots to accomplish diverse missions in compl...
China-developed UAV completes marine meteorological observation test
Dec 02, 2021 (XNA)
On Saturday morning, the Wing Loong-10 UAV carried out collaborative observations on cloud systems over the ocean, temperature and humidity profile distribution...
BRIPAC evaluates the capabilities of the Passer UAS within the framework of the RAPAZ Program
Nov 24, 2021 (SPX)
The event took place in October at the Casas de Uceda Firing and Maneuvering Range (CMT) in the province of Guadalajara. In addition to the members of the BRIPA...
Northrop Grumman awarded Mission Planning Contract to increase Global Hawk flexibility
Nov 23, 2021 (SPX)
"DYNAMO is part of a series of Global Hawk modernization efforts, including the Ground Station Modernization Program, that will reinforce the weapon system's ab...
SwRI successfully demonstrated drone autonomy technology at 2021 EnRicH hackathon
Nov 22, 2021 (SPX)
The hackathon took place Oct. 4-8 in Austria's Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant, the only nuclear facility that has been completely built but never activated. Th...
Secret General Atomics drone reportedly packs double the firepower of current fleet
Nov 16, 2021 (Sputnik)
Citing two unnamed sources with knowledge of the program, Breaking Defense revealed in an exclusive report that the secretive drone prototype was tested over th...
Airbus demonstrates aircraft inspection by drone at Farnborough
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
The drone, equipped with a high definition camera, performs visual inspection for the upper part of the aircraft. It is flown using an automatic flight control ...
Iran drones 'splinters in eyes' of enemies: general
Nov 11, 2021 (AFP)
The US and Israel, the sworn enemies of Iran, accuse it of using drones and missiles to attack American forces and Israeli-linked ships in the Gulf to destabili...
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