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
Testing
Google has scrapped its initial drone design because it was difficult to control and is now working on a new version, according to Astro Teller, head of the Internet company’s Google X research lab. Teller told the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Tex., that Google founders Larry Page
Commercial
A drone has been used in a daring night-time attempt to smuggle drugs and weapons into a high security jail. The plan was only thwarted when the machine became entangled in razor wire on a security wall and was then spotted by staff at Bedford Prison. It is the
Business
Boeing will conduct Denmark’s first-ever beyond visual line of sight unmanned airborne system (UAS) flights under civilian authority in May, another aspect of a partnership with Hans Christian Andersen Airport designed to help Denmark become an unmanned aerial systems leader.Boeing subsidiary Insitu Inc., in cooperation with the
Kansas State University is leading an international, multimillion-dollar project that is looking at unmanned aerial systems as a quick and efficient method to detect pest insects and diseases in food crops before outbreaks happen. Brian McCornack, associate professor of entomology, is the U.S. principal investigator on the $1.
Military
US warplanes have bombed a small drone used by Islamic State extremists in Iraq, marking the first time American-led forces had targeted an unmanned aircraft flown by the jihadists, officials said Wednesday. The strike took place on Tuesday near the western city of Fallujah, destroying "a remotely piloted
Charred wreckage emerges of the American UAS shot down by Syrian military near Assad's stronghold. The burned metal and mangled electronics in these images could belong to the first American aircraft to go down in Syria since the U.S. began airstrikes on ISIS inside the country. U.
Testing
Amazon.com Inc. has been awarded an experimental airworthiness certificate to use drones, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Under the contract, Amazon's logistics unit will be allowed to use drones for research, development and crew training. All flight operations of unmanned aircraft must be conducted