China has for the first time made public the video footage of a Wing Loong live fire missile test. In the live-fire missile test conducted in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in late July, Wing Loong, a typical made-in-China military drone, fired eight kinds
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The organisers of Drone World Expo have announced that sixteen new speakers have been added to an already impressive series of sessions. "Our Advisory Board is helping us to develop a stellar conference program with presentations from leaders in the industry that is attracting end users from around the
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is designing a next-generation high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) surveillance airplane, known internally as RQ-X or UQ-2, as an optionally-manned successor to the U-2 and Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk. U-2 programme officials told reporters at the Skunk Works
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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are now testing a kind of license plate for drones they think could help make drone operators more accountable. The project, called Lightcense, involves a rectangular array of bright, multicolored LEDs attached to the underside of a craft. The LEDs blink a unique
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The Yamaha RMAX unmanned helicopter has become the first drone to be certified for flight in New Zealand under Part 102 of the Civil Aviation Rules. Civil Aviation Rule Part 102 came into effect on the 1st August 2015 and establishes a framework for the safe operation of unmanned craft
Emerging technologies will take center stage when speakers from NASA and Indiana State University address logistics leaders at the 13th annual Indiana Logistics Summit on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the Indiana Convention Center. Unmanned systems, which include drones and robots, will be a primary theme for presentations by Frank Jones,
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Living up to it aim of being a truly 'World' event, more than 600 commercial drone end users representing 17 countries have already registered for Drone World Expo. These companies and more than 1,000 others will gather November 17 and 18 at the San Jose Convention Center
Federal aviation regulators by September expect to develop a foundation for a detailed plan to integrate drones into U.S. airspace, and then enact it in December, congressional investigators said in a new report. The Government Accountability Office publicly released a report on Aug. 17 that reviewed the Federal Aviation
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Remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) present new opportunities for helicopter operators and some industry representatives in Europe suggest operators supplement their fleets with these aircraft, which can fill roles that rotorcraft cannot. Reaction to the idea among operators is mixed. One says it found the idea to be more complicated
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AeroVironment, Inc. announced it has received a contract from the United States Army totalling $3.4 million for RQ-11B Raven unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to supply the Spanish Ministry of Defence via the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme. Raven is the most widely used UAS in the world today.
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Britain’s Paul Bonhomme was crowned the winner of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship stop at the famous Ascot Racecourse on Sunday, flying brilliantly under pressure in the world's fastest motorsport series. The victory was Bonhomme’s third this season and second straight win at Ascot
NRL is merging two separate research areas — unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) — to significantly improve tactical availability of UUVs in time critical situations. Common across the services, autonomous vehicles are being seen as an effective projection of force, both above and below the water’s surface.