A ban on government use of Chinese-manufactured drones went into effect in the Sunshine State on Wednesday April 5th, despite complaints from various police departments who use drones from Chinese manufacturer Da Jiang Innovations. The Unmanned Aerial Systems Minimum Security Requirements rule from the state's Department of Management
Agriculture
Diageo, producer of Don Julio and Casamigos tequilas, continues to innovate and has introduced the use of drones on its agave farms in Jalisco, Mexico, following up a successful pilot conducted in 2022.This has enabled Diageo to upskill its agave planters for the future of the ever-growing tequila industry,
Ukraine has launched a competition for drone developers to land an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) on Red Square in Moscow during the May 9 parade for a cash prize. The competition was announced by the co-founder of Monobank and developer of the Dovbush drone Volodymyr Yatsenko. Writing on Facebook, he
Business
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems plans to lay off 376 workers from its Poway and San Diego facilities. The company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) documentation with local and state employment officials this week detailing the job cuts, which become effective June 5. California law requires companies
Law Enforcement
Devon and Cornwall Police are using drones in a bid to crackdown on speeding drivers in the region. The devices, which were first launched on Monday 3 April, will be targeting motorcyclists in particular after a spate of serious collisions last year saw around 200 riders either killed or badly
VTOL
Insitu, a Boeing Company, announced its Integrator Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) at Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exhibition in National Harbor, Maryland. Integrator VTOL launches vertically on ships or land without sacrificing payload capacity or endurance. The system retains the performance of fixed-wing aircraft, providing the
Military
Turkish Aerospace has been working on outfitting Aksungur with a sonobuoy monitoring and launching system for about 2 years in order to increase Aksungur’s efficiency in ASW. The project is divided into three phases. Aksungur is expected to gain sonobuoy monitoring capability in the first phase, which means it
Swarms
NewSpace Research, a Bengaluru-based start-up has delivered swarm drones to Indian Army, which makes the Army the first major armed force in the world to operationalise these high-density swarm drones. This delivery may possibly be the world’s first operational high density swarming UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) induction for military
Military
After years of reticence about the use of small, cheap suicide drones in combat, the Ukraine conflict has convinced the French military it’s a capability troops cannot do without in a future conflict. Earlier this month the French Ministry of the Armed Forces announced it had narrowed down a
Business
REGENT, the pioneer in electric seaglider manufacturing, has received a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture arm of Lockheed Martin, a global leader in defense and aerospace technology, to expedite the development of seagliders for defense missions. REGENT seagliders are a new category of maritime vehicle that combine
Weapons Systems / Lasers
The U.S. Air Force isn’t going to buy the hypersonic AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon after the prototyping phase ends, following problems during testing, the service’s acquisition chief told lawmakers. But the service will still finish the ARRW program’s last two all-up round test flights to
Business
Aeronautics Ltd. has announced that it has recently signed a mid-life upgrade contract with the Finnish Defense Forces (FDF) for its existing Orbiter 2 Mini UAS array. Under the terms of the contract, Aeronautics will provide the FDF with a comprehensive mid-life upgrade package that includes a full suite of