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Commercial
The Federal Aviation Administration has established an interim policy to speed up airspace authorizations for certain commercial unmanned aircraft (UAS) operators who obtain Section 333 exemptions. The new policy helps bridge the gap between the past process, which evaluated every UAS operation individually, and future operations after we publish a
German designer Eric Huisman mocked up a sleek drone concept called the Apple Quadcopter, which has a minimalistic black-and-white design. It's very, well, Apple. In a series of photos posted to his website, which are stylised to look like Apple's traditional promotional pictures, the
Business
DARPA has awarded prime contracts for Phase 2 of Tern, a joint programme between DARPA and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR). The goal of Tern is to give forward-deployed small ships the ability to serve as mobile launch and recovery sites for medium-altitude,
Commercial
Crafty Game Of Thrones fans have been thwarted from getting any sneak behind-the-scenes peeks after a ban on drones above the set. Signs erected close to the filming studios in Titanic Quarter, East Belfast, warn of a "no-fly zone" . And novice pilots are told they
Google’s quest to introduce small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into low altitude airspace within a “few years” has driven the company to launch an unexpected foray into the avionics market, says Dave Vos, head of the Internet company’s Project Wing. Two companies – L-3 Aviation Products and FreeFlight
Business
SAAB has tied up with Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence and Aerospace to bid for the ship-borne unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programme of the Indian Navy, valued at 1,000 crore ($160M). Sources in the know said the tie-up will probably mark the entry of European UAVs into
Business
An arms transfer study from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) claims that only the UK and Nigeria have been the recipients of armed unmanned air vehicles, despite “widespread interest” in their acquisition. The numbers of importers and exporters of both armed and unarmed UAVs has “grown significantly” over
Soon the BNSF will be patrolling tracks from altitudes no higher than 500 feet, but not within three miles of any airport and always during daylight hours. Such are the restrictions imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in granting BNSF authority March 12 to operate lighter than 55-pound
Researchers have turned beetles into cyborgs, saying that controlling real animals equipped with high-tech backpacks could offer a better alternative to remotely controlled drones.The invention, by a team of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the US University of California Berkeley, was featured on the cover of
A Turkish army-affiliated software company has introduced a new warning system boasting an integrated drone at the CeBIT technologies fair in Germany. The Turkish Armed Forces Foundation-affiliated software and systems company, HAVELSAN, introduced at the 2015 CeBIT Fair the Sezgin, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) integrated early warning
Military
A photograph has surfaced online which purportedly shows a CH-4B unmanned combat aerial vehicle stationed at an Iraqi Air Force base, according to a March 17 report by Moscow-based think tank Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies cited by China's Global Times. This is the