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General Atomics receives more than $328.8M for drone systems
Dec 26, 2017 (UPI)
The contract, announced on Dec. 22 by the Pentagon, is worth more than $328.8 million under a cost-plus-fixed-fee agreement, which is a cost-reimbursement contr...
Boeing unveils entry in unmanned aerial tanker competition for the Navy
Dec 20, 2017 (UPI)
The Navy has been seeking an unmanned aerial system with refueling capabilities to support and extend the combat range of deployed Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, B...
Insitu to support Navy's ScanEagle UAV system
Dec 19, 2017 (UPI)
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is worth more than $22.7 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite...
Dutch police ground drone-fighting eagles
Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)
After a series of tests in 2015, the police last year announced they were putting into operation a flock of the birds of prey to take down drones believed to be...
Jet-powered drone tested by BAE Systems
Dec 13, 2017 (UPI)
BAE's Magma UAV utilizes wing circulation control, which uses air from the aircraft engine and blows it supersonically through the trailing edge of the wing, to...
Hensoldt intros new counter-drone system
Dec 07, 2017 (UPI)
The counter-drone system -- for protecting airports and infrastructure -- is the Xpeller counter-UAV system, which combines radar, RF and optical sensors and a ...
China says Indian drone 'invaded' its airspace, crashed
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
Beijing said the incident occurred "recently" at the border separating India's northeastern Sikkim state and China's Tibet region, but it did not say exactly wh...
'Go home' drone seeks to stop Japan overtime binge
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
The "T-Frend" buzzes over those trying to work late, blasting out the strains of "Auld Lang Syne", a Scottish tune typically used in Japan to announce that a st...
Research shows drones could help crop management take off
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
The study evaluated the ability of a UAS to accurately and precisely determine plant populations of cotton. Producers routinely assess plant populations early i...
Falcon's attack strategy could inspire new drones: study
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
Falcons' attack trajectories do not follow any geometric rules, contrary to popular belief, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienc...
Crossing drones with satellites: ESA eyes high-altitude aerial platforms
Dec 03, 2017 (ESA)
High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites, or HAPS, are platforms that float or fly at high altitude like conventional aircraft but operate more like satellites - except ...
Drone photos offer faster, cheaper data on key Antarctic species
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
Instead of spending hours to pursue, catch, immobilize, and weigh the seals amid hazardous conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers can now gain the s...
Drone Race: Human Versus Artificial Intelligence
Nov 23, 2017 (JPL)
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, put their work to the test recently. Timing laps through a twisting obstacle course, th...
Pentagon steps up Somalia drone strikes
Nov 17, 2017 (AFP)
Since the start of the year, America has carried out 28 drone strikes in the Horn of Africa nation, with 15 of these coming since September 1, the military's Af...
Lockheed Martin Integrates New Engine for Fury Unmanned Air Vehicle
Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)
With the integration of the 1803 engine into the platform, engineering tests performed by the company indicate that Fury will be able to stay in the air for 15 ...
Alpha Unmanned Systems teams with Sightec for image stabilization and object tracking.
Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)
"Sightec's on-board processing eliminates the shakiness caused by vibration on 1, 2 and 3 axes and makes the images recorded easier to analyze than ever before....
Leonardo delivers Falco EVO drones to Middle East
Nov 14, 2017 (UPI)
The Falco EVO is specifically designed for long range intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions, and can carry a wide range of payloads that can d...
First operational MQ-4C Triton drone delivered to U.S. Navy
Nov 12, 2017 (UPI)
Northrop Grumman in April received $19.9 million for engineering and analysis of obsolescence issues with the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle. In May, the ...
Israel downs Syrian drone over Golan Heights: army
Nov 11, 2017 (AFP)
The drone was intercepted by a Patriot missile in the demilitarised zone between the Israeli- and Syrian-controlled parts of the Golan, a military spokeswoman s...
NASA-Developed Drone Aircraft Offer One-of-a-Kind Capabilities
Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)
Unlike most commercially available unmanned aircraft systems, Vanilla Aircraft's VA001 and Black Swift Technologies' S2 small Unmanned Aircraft System, or sUAS,...
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