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Turkish drone kills 2 Iraqi officers in Kurdish region: army
Aug 11, 2020 (AFP)
The strike killed two border guard battalion commanders and the driver of their vehicle, the army said in a statement. It is the first time members of the regul...
Air Force holds electronic warfare exercise with classified stealth drone
Aug 07, 2020 (UPI)
The exercise, held Aug. 4 to Aug. 6 at Nellis Air Base, Nev., also included an Air Force B-2 bomber and F-22 and F-15 fighter planes, as well as the U.S. Navy's...
Image processing algorithm allows indoor drones to fly autonomously
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
The team, led by Chinthaka Premachandra, an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shibaura Institute of Technology, published its f...
Swiss Army Chooses Lockheed Martin's Indago 3 UAS For Tactical Reconnaissance And Surveillance
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
Indago provides aerial reconnaissance in environments unreachable by normal fixed-wing, unmanned aircraft systems. The first phase comprises manufacturing devel...
VTOL demonstration at JEB Little Creek showcases REALL Technology
Jul 29, 2020 (SPX)
With NAVFAC EXWC at the helm as the demonstration lead, the joint capability demonstration included USCENTCOM, USTRANSOM and USMC War Fighting Lab (MCWL) servin...
VSR700 prototype performs first autonomous free flight
Jul 29, 2020 (SPX)
This is a significant step in the programme following the first flight in November 2019 when the prototype was tethered to comply with regulatory requirements. ...
Drones and artificial intelligence show promise for conservation of farmland bird nests
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
Locating nests on the ground is challenging for the human eye, and highly time-consuming Researchers flew a drone carrying a thermal camera over agricultural fi...
Israeli-built drone for German air force has first successful flight
Jul 27, 2020 (UPI)
The Heron TP, modified to the specifications of the German Defense Ministry, completed its first flight on Sunday in Israel, the company said. The medium altitu...
AFLCMC Awards Skyborg Contract
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
The aim of the Skyborg Vanguard program is to integrate autonomous attritable unmanned air vehicle (UAV) technology with open missions systems to enable manned-...
Trump eases controls on armed drone exports
Jul 24, 2020 (AFP)
The White House announced that President Donald Trump had approved a move to diverge partly from the 1987 Missile Technology Control Regime, in which 35 countri...
Four companies share $400M contract for Skyborg drone prototypes
Jul 24, 2020 (UPI)
The contracts, announced by the Defense Department on Thursday, have a shared ceiling of $400 million but allocate no funding to initiate development of the unm...
Unleashing the potential of tethered drones
Jul 20, 2020 (SPX)
"Our aim has been to show that TUAVs offer a very appealing solution as a bridge between fixed base stations and free-flying drones," says Mohamed-Slim Alouini,...
Oversight gap leaves Pentagon unsure if Afghan drone project has helped, IG says
Jul 17, 2020 (UPI)
Released on Friday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan, the report notes that at least $174 million was spent between 2015 and 2019 to supply Afgha...
Firebird completes successful multi-day capability demonstration flights
Jul 16, 2020 (SPX)
"During this exercise we rapidly integrated sensors and utilized Firebird's operational flexibility to demonstrate the system's unique capability," said Jane Bi...
Britain buys General Atomics' Protector drone in $81M deal
Jul 15, 2020 (UPI)
The aircraft will also be deployed in intelligence, surveillance, targeting and reconnaissance missions, replacing Britain's current fleet of Reaper drones, off...
Northrop Grumman Short Range Air Defense System to counter aerial threats
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
The decision follows the findings of a service board established by the DOD's Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-sUAS) Office to evaluate and provid...
World entering new military 'drone age': UN expert
Jul 09, 2020 (AFP)
Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said the global community needed to take stock of how armed drones...
Northrop Grumman system to be interim anti-drone solution
Jul 08, 2020 (UPI)
The Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control, or FAAD C2, system, is the platform of choice until a permanent solution is developed, Grumman said in a press...
State Department approves $23M sale of Black Hawk to Jordan
Jul 07, 2020 (UPI)
According to the DSCA, Jordan's government asked to buy one UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter in standard U.S. Army configuration, along with related equipment, incl...
Hundreds of drones light up Seoul sky with virus messages
Jul 06, 2020 (AFP)
Three hundred unmanned aerial vehicles were programmed to form images above the Han river -- which runs through the South Korean capital -- for the eyecatching ...
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