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Amazon sees line-of-sight hurdle to US drone parcel delivery
Jun 17, 2015 (AFP)
Amazon insisted Wednesday on a significant change to proposed US drone regulations before it introduces 30-minute Prime Air parcel delivery by unmanned aerial v...
Maneuvering mini drone quickly destroyed in laser test
Jun 17, 2015 (UPI)
A laser system from MBDA Deutschland successfully acquired, tracked and defeated a free-flying mini drone maneuvering in a target area 1,640 feet away. The test...
NASA Leads Development of a New System to Manage Low Altitude Drones
Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)
"The sky could become increasingly crowded as personal and commercial uses of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly called drones, become more popular." Tha...
Four US Surveillance Drones to Be Deployed to Japan Within Six Months
Jun 16, 2015 (Sputnik)
Since 2014, two Global Hawk surveillance drones have been temporarily deployed at Misawa air base. Within approximately six months, starting in July two more dr...
Australian military drones to fly in civilian air space for first time
Jun 15, 2015 (UPI)
Unmanned aerial vehicles of the Australian military are to operate in the country's civil airspace for the first time starting later this month. Israel Aerospac...
X-37B Still Largely Unexplained
Jun 10, 2015 (SPX)
The fourth mission of the X-37B robot spaceplane is well underway. We know much of what is happening with the flight. There's a test of a Hall Effect thruster f...
IAI shines spotlight on loitering attack drone
Jun 08, 2015 (UPI)
Israel Aerospace Industries is touting its HAROP Loitering Munitions system, a drone that loiters over a target area before selecting and attacking a target. In...
China monitors university entrance exams with drones
Jun 08, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese students sat the annual make-or-break university entrance exams on Monday, with officials deploying drones or high-tech radio surveillance trucks at sch...
Military Sensor Optics For UAVs
Jun 07, 2015 (SPX)
Certain areas of military optical devices have been realizing the benefits of sapphire windows and lenses from Guild Optics for many years. The extreme hardness...
Insect mating behavior has lessons for drones
Jun 05, 2015 (SPX)
Male moths locate females by navigating along the latter's pheromone (odor) plume, often flying hundreds of meters to do so. Two strategies are involved to acco...
Europeans eye joint development of UAV
May 22, 2015 (UPI)
A two-year study on development of a medium-altitude/long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle is to be jointly conducted by three European aerospace companies. Ai...
X-37B Mysteries Continue
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
The launch of the fourth X-37B mission has not resolved some of the biggest mysteries that surround this flight, and the X-37B program in general. X-37B is a ro...
Pentagon's Mysterious X-37B Space Drone Heads Back Into Orbit
May 20, 2015 (Sputnik)
The US Air Force is preparing to launch its super-secretive space drone into orbit again, and this time NASA will use the flight to see how 100 or so "materials...
Russia to Receive Hundreds of New Drones Over Next Decade
May 20, 2015 (Sputnik)
Having realized the strategic and military benefits of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the Russian military will focus on the production of hundreds of new dro...
'Euro-drone' project gets lift-off to challenge US
May 18, 2015 (AFP)
A European project to build a military drone by 2025 took wing on Monday as Germany, France and Italy signed a deal to start technical work and end their relian...
'Cicadas': US military's new swarm of mini-drones
May 16, 2015 (AFP)
US military scientists have invented a miniature drone that fits in the palm of a hand, ready to be dropped from the sky like a mobile phone with wings. The "mi...
Next X-37B Mission Set To Begin Soon
May 12, 2015 (SPX)
The fourth flight of the X-37B robot spaceplane will soon begin. This mission is groundbreaking! It's hardly the first launch, but it's the first time that we h...
Tern Tech Offshoots Show Potential for New UAS Capabilities at Sea
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
Tern, a joint program between DARPA and the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR), seeks to give forward-deployed small ships the unprecedented capacity to...
Drone Aviation receives order for aerostats
May 06, 2015 (UPI)
Small platform aerostat systems from Drone Aviation Corporation are being supplied to defense contractor Troll Systems for use by an international customer. The...
US moves step closer to commercial drone use
May 06, 2015 (AFP)
Drones will take to the skies to inspect crops and infrastructure as US civil aviation authorities moved a step closer Wednesday to allowing their widespread co...
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