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The wreckage of an armed drone turned up in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday near the epicenter of the West African country’s violent Islamist insurgency. A Borno State publication KSM News, published on Facebook that an unmanned drone suspected to be used in the counter-insurgency operation in the Northeast
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Thousands of square kilometres of the world's forests are burned and cut down every day to make room for agricultural zones and new urban developments. But a new drone design may be able to combat industrial deforestation by dispersing seeds from the air and planting up to a
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The sale of the Predator to the UAE has been tentatively approved by senior US lawmakers, in what would be the first sale of the aircraft outside of Nato. After nearly two years of deliberations, the US state department began talks with the senate and house foreign affairs committees in
When it comes to what to depict on rugs, Afghan weavers traditionally turn to what’s most familiar. So in the 1980s, when the Mujahedeen were fighting back the Soviet occupation, some local weavers abandoned flowers and water jugs to illustrate what their days consisted of back then: war. Tanks,
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An eye-catching stunt to pilot a drone over 10 kilometres of stunning Hong Kong countryside in order to deliver a chocolate bar to a friend took months of careful planning, one of the project’s pilots has revealed. Tens of thousands of viewers have watched a spectacular two-minute
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The first full-size model of the Chirok (Teal) reconnaissance and strike drone is preparing for test flights. It was introduced last year at the Innoprom Expo on a 1:5 scale in Yekaterinburg. Now the full-size model is ready, sporting a wingspan of 10 meters. The Chirok is
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Days after the Chennai police said that it was considering regulation of private use of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Kolkata Police banned any private use of UAVs or drones in the city. This comes in the wake of a private drone crashing into the White House compound in
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This Goodyear Corsair FG-1D was built under licence by the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation at their facility in Akron, Ohio and allocated Bu No 88297. She was accepted by the US Navy on 9th April 1945 and delivered a mere two days later. She was initially dispatched to Guam in
European UAV manufacturer Aerialtronics has been working with the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) to develop the Interceptor, a system aimed at protecting the public from potential threats resulting from the unlawful use of unmanned aerial vehicles. The move comes as the government recognises that inexpensive remotely piloted aircraft systems
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The Spanish State Aviation Safety Agency, a division of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Ministerio de Fomento) has just published a list of approved UAS operators. The State Aviation Safety Agency , also known by the acronym AESA is a state agency responsible for the safety of civil aviation
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Manufacturer DJI will disable all of its devices within a 15.5-mile radius of downtown Washington D.C., following the crash landing of one its quadcopters in the White House compound on Monday. The company said it would release what it called a mandatory update for its drone operating
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Personal drones will come under control under a new regulation now being drawn by the Transport Ministry in Thailand.These personal drones are considered a threat to aviation as they can fly at high altitude and at random path, and also a violation of privacy of others as they are