Video
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Nagorno-Karabakh Air Defense units have shot down an Azerbaijani military drone on Tuesday. In a statement, the NKR Defense Army said the Israeli-made drone was hit by one of its air-defense units early in the afternoon immediately after entering its airspace over a southern section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani “line of
Tethered
Carolina Unmanned Vehicles, Inc. has announced the availability of its in-house Lightweight Aerostat System (LAS) to support testing of various electronic payloads. Suitable payloads may include EO/IR Surveillance, Networked Communications Relays and Signal Intelligence collection. CUV has upgraded their capability to test payloads up to approximately 40 pounds and
Business
OneSky Systems, Inc. , a developer of Unmanned Traffic Management and Urban Air Mobility platforms, announced that it secured a Series A funding round led by Sumitomo Corporation, through Sumitomo Corporation of Americas. This funding will enable significant global expansion and accelerated development of the company’s robust traffic management platforms.
Commercial
Drone delivery service provider Skyports has announced that it has been accepted into the UK Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Regulatory Sandbox to trial beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights in non-segregated airspace. The Regulatory Sandbox is a programme established by the UK CAA to create an environment where
Electronic Sub-Systems
Octopus ISR Systems has announced the release of the new Epsilon 140LC compact airborne electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) surveillance system. Featuring industry-leading size, weight, power and cost (SWAP-c) specifications, the Epsilon 140LC combines cutting-edge sensor technology with high precision geo-location to provide true next-generation performance for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Commercial
The Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Transport has just published the report of its performance audit to assess the effectiveness of FAA’s UAS registration system security controls, including controls to protect PII, and to determine whether FAA’s contingency planning limits the effects caused
In late November, northeastern Colorado was concerned with a series of mysterious drones flying over several counties in the state. Bearing various descriptions and light patterns, the large 6-to-10 foot mysterious drones made national headlines and left law enforcement scratching their heads. In a January statement issued by the Colorado
Business
Black Swift Technologies (BST), a specialized engineering firm based in Boulder, CO, announced that it has been awarded a USAF SBIR Phase II contract to develop an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to autonomously conduct atmospheric profiling supporting more accurate cargo drops and improved localized weather forecasts supporting Air Force, Army
Testing
Immediately before lockdown, a team from Snowdonia Aerospace, with partners SwiftFlight Avionics, University of Manchester and the Welsh Ambulance Service, completed a successful flight demo that showed proof-of-concept for beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) delivery of a defibrillator by drone to a remote, rural location that would be difficult to reach
Commercial
The AUVSI has just made a new interactive report available entitled 'Analysis of Part 107 Waivers Granted by FAA' On August 29, 2016, the Federal Aviation Administration implemented Part 107 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, also known as the small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)
C-UAS
Citadel Defense, a supplier of combat-proven counter drone technology to militaries, governments, and commercial organizations, has expanded its AI solution to detect, identify, and defeat unmanned systems in the air, on land, or at sea. Where other C-UAS sensing modalities using radar or cyber takeover tactics are limited by ground