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Teaching drones about the birds and the bees
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) of the future will be able to visually coordinate their flight and navigation just like birds and flying insects do, without nee...
Textron's Shadow UAS passes 1 million flight hours
Jul 07, 2016 (UPI)
Textron's Shadow drone has surpassed 1 million total flight hours, becoming the only drone of its size to hit the milestone, the company announced Thursday. Mor...
Brazil's Casador drone takes first flight
Jul 07, 2016 (UPI)
Brazil's Casador drone took its first demonstration flight last week in Sao Paulo, manufacturer Israel Aerospace Industries announced Thursday. The class 4 medi...
US-led forces destroy own combat drone after Syria crash
Jul 05, 2016 (AFP)
Coalition forces fighting the Islamic State group in northern Syria destroyed one of their own combat drones Tuesday after the unmanned aircraft crashed, the US...
Drones to Keep Tabs on Light Pollution
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers at Nottingham Trent University have developed a light, low cost system, deployable on a drone, that could help everyone monitor and control light po...
US reveals death tolls from drone and air strikes
Jul 01, 2016 (AFP)
The United States on Friday lifted the lid on one of the most controversial tactics of President Barack Obama's secretive counter-terror campaign, detailing for...
Thales gets Watchkeeper support contract
Jun 30, 2016 (UPI)
Thales has been awarded a $106 million U.K. Ministry of Defense contract for Watchkeeper drone training, maintenance and support operations, the company announc...
Lockheed's Q-53 shows drone tracking capability
Jun 28, 2016 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin's AN/TPQ-53 counterfire radar recently demonstrated its ability to identify and track drones and pass that information to a command and control ...
Insitu gets Coast Guard drone contract
Jun 28, 2016 (UPI)
Insitu will provide a ScanEagle drone on one U.S. Coast Guard national security cutter under a contract announced by the company Monday. The contract includes t...
MQ-4C Triton UAS demos new capabilities
Jun 23, 2016 (UPI)
Northrop Grumman's MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial system has demonstrated new communications and flight capabilities in U.S. Navy testing. In a flight test earlie...
Northrop Grumman gets Global Hawk contract mod
Jun 22, 2016 (UPI)
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has been awarded a $203 million modification to exercise the option on a previously awarded contract to provide contractor logist...
Northrop Grumman gets DARPA Tern contract
Jun 20, 2016 (UPI)
Northrop Grumman has received a $17.7 million contract modification as part of DARPA's Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node, or Tern, program. Tern is a pro...
Russian Top Secret Hypersonic Glider Can Penetrate Any Missile Defense
Jun 15, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia's new Yu-74 ultra-maneuverable hypersonic glide vehicles may become yet another response to the deployment of NATO's missile installations in Eastern Eur...
Gabon set to order Nexter UAV and recon robots
Jun 15, 2016 (UPI)
Gabon is ordering drones, unmanned ground vehicles, mobile medical shelters and positioning systems from France's Nexter corporation, the company announced at t...
Johns Hopkins team makes hobby drones crash to expose design flaws
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
Sales of drones - small flying machines equipped with cameras - are soaring. But new research by a Johns Hopkins computer security team has raised concerns abou...
Predator C Avenger gets boost in ISR capabilities
Jun 14, 2016 (UPI)
A Predator C Avenger unmanned aerial system has been tested with an advanced electro-optical/infrared sensor for surveillance from significant standoff ranges. ...
Interest in IAI's Drone Guard counter-drone system grows
Jun 09, 2016 (UPI)
Israel Aerospace Industries reports increasing customer demand for its new unmanned aerial vehicle detection and disruption system, Drone Guard. "We have manage...
Russia to expand drone exports
Jun 09, 2016 (UPI)
Russia's Rosoboronexport says it aims to bolster Russia's position in the unmanned aerial systems market by promoting new aircraft. Among them are the Takhion a...
Russia working on high-altitude drone
Jun 07, 2016 (Sputnik)
Unmanned aircraft acting as hovering antennas could be used to provide mobile communications in major cities, and eventually take on some of the functions of sp...
Satellite Software 'Descends' to Drone Altitude
Jun 07, 2016 (JPN)
Once upon a time, terrestrial mapping software was so big, so bad, and so expensive that only governments with satellites and budgets footed by taxpayers could ...
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