France has successfully completed trials of a significant software upgrade to its fleet of General Atomics Reaper Block 5 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), marking a crucial milestone in expanding the country’s military capabilities. This software upgrade enables the Reaper UAVs to conduct operations from French bases and fly over
Military
The MQ-8C Fire Scout, a variant of the MQ-8B, is an unmanned aerial vehicle used for expeditionary operations aboard ships. The Navy’s only unmanned helicopter, which can be deployable from land or sea, provides target-acquisition, real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to the men and women
Four years after its launch, Skydio 2’s follow-and-film capability and autonomous cinematography features like KeyFrame are still in a class all on their own. Watching our consumer customers use our drones to capture photos and videos that would be impossible to achieve any other way while they
Inspections
Sellafield Ltd., a subsidiary of the U.K. government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, announced that drone pilots have successfully completed two firsts in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England. According to the company, the flights, which accessed a Sellafield building with
Military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) advanced its ability to operationalize the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) ecosystem by combining advanced autonomy and government-provided human-machine interface (HMI) hardware. A GA-ASI-owned Avenger Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) was paired with “digital twin” aircraft to autonomously conduct Live,
Regulations
From January 1, 2024 the drone regulation will become fully applicable and the open category will benefit from drones with a class mark. Drones with a C1 marking weighing up to 900 g will be able to conduct operations in populated areas (as defined in A1 subcategory). Drones up to
AI
Shield AI, an American defense technology company building a world class AI pilot, and Sentient Vision Systems (Sentient), an Australia-based specialist in AI-enabled passive wide area search, have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at delivering a wide area motion imagery (WAMI) solution for Department of Defense (DoD), Australian
Transport
Drone Delivery Canada Corp. has announced the successful completion of the first flights in a commercial setting for the Canary Remote Piloted Aircraft on the Care by Air route, which is the Company’s longest ever commercial route at 13.4km. The Company completed 3 round trip flights with the
Transport
Amazon Prime Air has lost two executives key to the company’s drone delivery operations, the latest setback for an aspirational program that’s required hefty investment but has experienced scant success. Jim Mullin, Prime Air’s chief pilot, left Amazon last month, according to his LinkedIn profile. Robert Dreer,
Video
With a streamlined, smooth aesthetic, classic Italian lines and excellent performance - it's hard to understand why the CANT Z.511, which already holds such the accolade to its name of being the largest floatplane of all time - has been largely forgotten. The CANT Z.511 was a four-
Research
Researchers have developed a new way to accurately count and objectively analyze close encounters between drones and airplanes — without depending solely on pilot sightings. In a peer-reviewed study published by the Society of Automotive Engineers in the SAE International Journal of Aerospace, researchers looked at more than 1.8
Business
Hypersonix Launch Systems Ltd. and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. have announced an Exclusive Teaming Agreement to provide the Hypersonix DART AE Hypersonic System within the U.S. market, integrated with Kratos’ Zeus family of solid rocket motors. The DART AE is a three-meter-long, single-use, high