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Russian defense contractor Kronstadt announced that it has signed contracts for the sale of drones to unspecified foreign countries. The first deliveries are expected by 2022. Kronstadt was granted a credit line of 3 billion Russian rubles ($41.2 billion) by state-owned bank Promsvyazbank that it will use to
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EHang Holdings Limited announced that its flagship passenger-grade AAV EHang 216 and Falcon logistics model have completed Beyond Visual Line of Sight trial flights for airport transport and parcel delivery in Estonia under the European Union’s GOF 2.0 Integrated Urban Airspace Validation (“GOF 2.0”) project. The
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) continues to advance new levels of autonomous control for unmanned aircraft, successfully completing an airborne Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) demonstration on Aug. 25, 2021 pairing a company-owned MQ-20 Avenger with a modified King Air 200 as a surrogate for 4th- and
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PABLO AIR, a company specializing in drone logistics solutions and delivery services and a member of Born2Global Centre, will take part in the development of a drone delivery service for use in the United States. As a member of a consortium led by EVA, PABLO AIR will begin its participation
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MCTECH, an Israeli company specializing in the development and production of electronic warfare solutions for security forces, armies, and governments, unveiled recently the MC-HORIZON D360BP, a multi-layered manpack system designed to protect against UAVs. The reactive system can identify drones, acquire the targets, and neutralize them automatically from
Testing
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its Air Wolf Tactical Drone System completed a 100 percent successful flight at the recently approved Burns Flat, Oklahoma Range Facility. The Kratos Air Wolf Mission, which was the inaugural flight at the Burns Flat Range location, included multiple new payloads carried
Business
Plymouth Rock Technologies Inc., a company developing detection apparatus and unmanned technologies, is has announced the sale of custom drones to Survey-AR to deliver a drone swarm test capability. The project will assess an autonomous drone swarm system to optimize weather and air quality monitoring in atmospheric boundary layer
Military
In cooperation with UK and Netherlands airspace authorities, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. flew a company-owned, MQ-9B SeaGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) on September 2nd. from RAF Waddington across the North Sea to Leeuwarden Air Base in
Events
Advanced Aircraft Company (AAC), a developer of long-endurance hybrid-electric unmanned aircraft systems designed for a wide range of commercial, defense and public safety applications, has been named one of seven finalists in the NIST First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of
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Drones-as-a-service provider Delta Drone International has confirmed that it has formally completed the acquisition of 60% of the shares in Perth-based provider of aerial and terrestrial surveying services, Arvista Pty Ltd as announced on 16 August 2021, with Arvista to commence trading as a DLT subsidiary
Business
Australian drone-powered logistics company, Swoop Aero, and commercial drone safety innovator, Iris Automation, have entered into a partnership to offer Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone solutions to global clients seeking to safely unlock the skies above cities and solve logistics challenges in remote and rural areas. Swoop
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This footage comes from one of the final scenes in the captivating 1945 Academy Award nominated film The Last Bomb. The complete 35-minute remastered film is available on this channel here. The Last Bomb is a 1945 propaganda film mainly concerning the conventional phase of the bombing of Japan