Military
The Czech Military Technical Institute (VTU) has developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle, Brus, which is designed for rescue and humanitarian purposes, has a day- and a night-vision camera and may also carry other devices, VTU representatives told a press conference on Monday. The VTU used the new drone
Military
The U.S.State Department has approved its first policy for selling armed drones to allies. It has just published new guidelines that set out procedures for both commercial and military drone exports, which the department said it will assess on a “case-by-case basis,” including “armed systems.” It
Commercial
Long-awaited federal rules proposed for commercial drones should pave the way for thousands of U.S. businesses to fly the devices in industries like filmmaking, farming and construction, but drone proponents worried that limits in the regulations would stifle other possible uses like package delivery. Drone makers and users
Events
Controp Precision Technologies Ltd. will be demonstrating its recently introduced cutting edge MICRO-STAMP Dual Sensor Day/Night Stabilized Miniature Payload for Small UAVs for the first time at Aero India 2015.With a low weight of a mere 300 grams – this new gyro-stabilized miniature payload in the world
Commercial
Dronewerx is providing custom-built and ominous-looking drones for “Wake,” an action movie starring Bruce Willis and Ben Kingsley that began filming in the Greater Cleveland area Monday. Matt Mishak and Mike Hanna, the men behind the company, packed up two of their newly crafted drones and headed out
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Business
Belarusian scientists are planning to launch the manufacture of electric engines for compact unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in 2015, Yuri Yatsyna, head of the R&D center BAK and Technologies of the Physics Technology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, said at the press conference “Innovative
Commercial
The recently created Association for Unmanned Vehicles of Colombia has the extended purpose of promoting and enabling RPAS commercial use in the country.In Colombia there are +2,7 million land certificates to be re issued; 4,000 Km of oil and gas pipes projected or under construction; 6,000
Commercial
VTOL Technologies Ltd was founded in 2002 with the goal of developing and subsequent sales and operational service provision of long-endurance, lightweight, portable, Beyond Visual Line Of Sight [BVLOS] Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems [RPAS] targeted at network-based industries, initially targeting the energy sector, providing a new, automated, much
Commercial
EE said that it plans to use what it calls "air masts" in its "Signalling The Future" manifesto, which lays out the UK mobile operator's $2.3 billion plans to extend its 4G LTE coverage to 99% of the UK population by 2017. The
Business
General Atomics, Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has been awarded a $279,144,933 fixed-price-incentive-firm and firm-fixed-price contract (0077) for MQ-9 Reaper production under Basic Ordering Agreement FA8620-10-G-3038.The contractor will provide 24 MQ-9 Block 5 Reaper aircraft and associated spare parts,
First Responders
Doug Stow, a geography professor from San Diego State University, is developing a programme that uses before-and-after aerial imagery to reveal infrastructure damage in a matter of minutes. "After a disaster, emergency responders need to know what's damaged and what's functioning," said