British defence company Ultra Electronics unveiled a working prototype of a mind-controlled drone at the Three Counties Defence and Security Expo (3CDSE) in Malvern, England, on 4 November. All the pilot has to do is to focus their attention and eyes on specific circles on a computer screen. This
Agriculture
An Emirati-led AgriTech start-up has developed a drone that can pollinate date palm trees in less than a minute. Before the flowering season, a drone is used to map out the area where pollination is required. Data collected from the 3D map is then fed into the pollination
Business
Turkey’s Baykar signed a contract with Ukrainian firm Ivchenko-Progress for the delivery of AI-322F Turbofan engines its Combat Unmanned Aircraft System (MIUS) project. The deal was signed between the parties at the SAHA EXPO Defense and Aviation Hybrid Fair organized by SAHA Istanbul. MUIS will be jet-
Transport
Amazon.com Inc.’s has shifted staff working on its Paris-based drone research and development center to new projects, marking another set-back in the company’s delivery project. The dozen-strong team, which previously focused on drone navigation, were reassigned to new roles in Amazon from September 2020
Testing
The Navy and Marine Corps may soon have a way to resupply warfighters on the front line using unmanned systems capable of delivering necessary supplies from a distance in a variety of scenarios. The Department is considering several cargo resupply systems and recently demonstrated these capabilities to senior leadership during
Software
At the Dubai Airshow, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) will have a number of capabilities on display in booth #1470, including its STARE (System for Tasking And Real-time Exploitation) system. STARE provides a common operating picture for operators of GA-ASI Unmanned Aircraft Systems by integrating and
Military
A kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will be used to counter and neutralize other drone-borne threats successfully conducted its maiden flight and will be ready for delivery at the beginning of 2022, according to company officials. The product, named the Fedai, was created in cooperation with Turkish defense
Targets
The drones of the JSC CSTS Technodinamika holding that were delivered in January 2021 played the role of targets for the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft gun-missile system as part of the Slavic Shield-2021 training of Russia and Serbia. These helicopter drones are simulator devices that have no analogs
Patents
On November 11, the US Patent & Trademark Office published two patent applications from Apple that relate to drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The first covers a system and method for pairing/unpairing UAVs to/from UAV controllers. Unmanned aerial vehicles, also referred to as drones, may be characterized
C-UAS
Israel Aerospace Industries has unveiled the Scorpius family of Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. Scorpius is the first electronic warfare (EW) system in the world capable of simultaneously targeting multiple threats, across frequencies and in different directions. Scorpius is based on the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) technology, which provides a
Weapons Systems / Lasers
Turkish defense firm Asisguard has equipped its new mini-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with 40-millimeter (1.6-inch) grenade thrower. After attaching a 5.56-millimeter gun, the firm took the drone, called Songar, a step further, Barış Düzgün, the firm's general manager told Anadolu Agency (AA)
eVTOL
At a Seoul airport, South Korea's transportation ministry demonstrated its future-generation flying urban transportation system. German urban air mobility (UAM) pioneer, Volocopter, completed the first test flight with its 2X aircraft in Seoul, South Korea. It was the first-ever crewed public test flight of a fully