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* Allen-Vanguard, a global provider of customised solutions for defeating Radio Frequency (RF) based terrorist and extremist threats, has announced a strategic collaboration with the domain knowledge experts in passive RF detection, Metis Aerospace. This collaboration has been established to leverage their respective expertise and proven products to address the
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UCI Professor Peter Burke set a Guinness World Record* for the farthest distance to control a drone. Now, the electrical engineering professor is teaching a class where students get to build and fly that exact drone model. His record-breaking drone was operated from 11,440 miles away – close to
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The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umierov announced that the the Swedish government will finance the production of Ukrainian long-range drones as part of military assistance. Thus, the country will join the ‘Danish model’ of supporting Ukraine’s defense capabilities. According to Rustem Umierov, he agreed on this
A number of drones were spotted over and near RAF Lakenheath in England on Nov. 20, the Air Force told The War Zone in response to our query about the incident. “The number of UAS fluctuated and they ranged in size/configuration,” a spokesperson for U.S. Air Forces in
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* Northwest UAV has partnered with Silvus Technologies to offer the most advanced wireless communications systems available on the market. The Silvus family of StreamCaster MANET radios deliver high-fidelity video, voice and data communications with class-leading output power, range, and mobility. At the heart of every StreamCaster MANET radio
At the Association of Francophone Universities (AUF) award ceremony, Grenoble INP – Ense³, UGA was awarded the Educational Innovation Prize 2024 in the ecological transformation category for the PV Panel Cleaner project. A drone capable of cleaning solar panels automatically. This is the ambitious goal of the PV Panel Cleaner project,
* Thales Australia and the University of Adelaide recently announced a partnership to explore development of a unique Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) to counter battlespace threats, including fast-moving swarms of low-profile, armed Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) at extended ranges. The partnership will explore the application of ultra-short
In a field at a secret location, dozens of armed Ukrainian soldiers are running through billowing smoke and trying to escape the attention of drones buzzing overhead. The field is in East Anglia, not Kursk, and the drones are dropping water balloons, not explosives. Rubber bullets are fired instead of
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– Advanced Navigation, an Australian supplier of autonomous systems and navigation technologies, along with MBDA, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop a resilient navigation system integrating MBDA’s NILEQ absolute positioning technology.Suitable for the modern era, the co-developed solution will provide resilient absolute positioning for
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The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has announced contract awards to select software developers supporting the Replicator initiative. These vendors are playing a key role in advancing resilient command and control (C2) and collaborative autonomy solutions for all domain attritable autonomous (ADA2) systems. “We believe that best in breed commercial software
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Funding round led by Baillie Gifford and backed by the NATO Innovation Fund. New strategic investors will support sustainable growth plan and facilitate geographic expansion into priority markets Investment will fund continued product innovation and scaling of production capacity. TEKEVER, the European market leader in AI-centric Unmanned Aerial Systems
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A Russian FPV drone with fiber optics loses signal while approaching targets. Although this is rarer than in common drones, this can also happen with drones using fiber optics. Source: reddit