Regulations
The EU is being urged to create an online register of drone owners. The recommendation was made by the House of Lords EU Committee, which has been looking into what rules are needed to safeguard the use of unmanned aircraft.It suggests the database would initially include businesses and other
Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a new laser weapon able to successfully disable the engine of a truck from over a mile away. Sounding like something out of a science fiction movie, the Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) is a ground-based system that features a 30kW, single-mode fibre-
Military
The U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has achieved a significant decrease in cost per flight hour coupled with a sharp increase in flight hours in 2014. The Global Hawk programme has brought the system's cost
Video
Once again ex-RNZAF Strike Pilot Graham Bethell flings his WW2 P-51 Mustang around the skies with aplomb...Here the aircraft is seen at the Classics Of The Sky airshow held at Tauranga Airport, Tauranga, New Zealand. Source: YouTube
Commercial
UAS Directions is a startup bent on thinking from unexpected directions. Over the past 16 months they have pored their unique design philosophy into developing their 3D multi-rotor uni-bodies.They believe the launch of their first "frameless" concept will put an end to framed multi-rotors,
Google is gearing up to test its solar-powered drone project – dubbed “Project Titan” – sometime this year as part of its continued efforts to bring service to some of the four billion people without Internet access. Sundar Pichai, a Senior VP at Google who oversees Android, Chrome and Google apps,
An Al Jazeera journalist has been fined €1,000 (£725;$1,120) for flying a drone in Paris last week in the midst of a security alert sparked by unexplained drone sightings across the city.Tristan Redman, 34, from the Qatar-based network al-Jazeera, was arrested last month in
Commercial
Tomskneft, a joint venture between Rosneft and Gazprom Neft, has started using unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor its pipeline routes and the oil and gas production assets. Testing of drones built under a domestic technology started at the Sovetskoe and Vakhskoe fields located in the Strezhevskiy District. Given the size
Testing
Throughout the Middle East, falcons have been flown for hunting and sport for thousands of years. But devotees of this ancient tradition have brought falconry into the technological age with falconers using quadcopters to train their birds. The birds’ owners try to maximize the falcon’s hunting area by training
Regulations
The European Commission’s future air traffic management initiative has only one-third of the budget required to carry out the full integration of remotely piloted air systems (RPAS) into European airspace, a senior representative has acknowledged. Speaking at a conference in Brussels on 3 March, Denis Koehl, senior advisor
Military
India’s Directorate of Naval Air Staff has issued Request for Information (RFI) last month seeking 50 ‘Naval Ship-Borne Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (NSUAS) that can augment various patrolling and search-related tactics on its vessels. Indian Navy currently operates two squadrons of Israeli-origin Heron and Searcher Mk-II
Testing
Officials with privately-owned Turkish firm Vestel Savunma said its Karayel UAV has passed a critical flight test, flying with an electro-optical camera and a total payload of 51 kilograms, and is ready to enter the Turkish military's inventory. Vestel has been developing the tactical done since