Business
Red Cat Holdings, Inc. a military technology company integrating robotic hardware and software to protect and support the warfighter, has made a materially significant financial investment in Firestorm, an American company developing the first completely Modular Unmanned Aerial System (MUAS) that is 3D printed and payload agnostic. Firestorm is building
Research
Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is battling a dilemma: the more energy-efficient an electric aircraft is, the noisier it gets. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a propeller design optimisation method that
UAM/UTM
Inmarsat has welcomed Singapore-based Heron AirBridge, a specialist in Uncrewed Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) in the Asia Pacific region, as the latest company to join its Velaris Partner Network, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed at Drones Asia. Working alongside regional regulators, the two companies will enable the
eVTOL
Airspeeder has announced the premiere of its highlights show, "Airspeeder: Above The Asphalt," on Fox Sports Australia and Kayo Sports this week. This is a significant milestone for everyone at Airspeeder and Alauda Aeronautics, and offers the possibility of experiencing the excitement of the first-ever eVTOL circuit race
Accidents
A U.S military MQ-9 surveillance drone crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets, in the first such incident since Russia's invasion of Ukraine over a year ago. The Pentagon said that one of the Russian Su-27 jets struck the propeller
Military
Taiwan showcased new models of its domestically produced military drones on Tuesday, saying they are key to its "asymmetric warfare" capacity to make its forces more agile if they have to face a far larger Chinese military. China, which has never renounced the use of force to bring
Transport
BMT, an international design, engineering, science, and risk management consultancy, has announced that it has been granted a patent by the U.K. Intellectual Property Office for a novel concept called ‘SPARROW’, an autonomous ‘air-ground payload transfer device’ with truly disruptive capabilities for drone delivery applications. Phil Metcalfe, Regional Business
Research
How fresh are your data? For drones searching a disaster zone or robots inspecting a building, working with the freshest data is key to locating a survivor or reporting a potential hazard. But when multiple robots simultaneously relay time-sensitive information over a wireless network, a traffic jam of data can
Military
On March 13, a new set of images showing Iran’s Shahed-191 strike drone with a new mobile launch system emerged on social media. The images, also shared by the official Twitter account of the EurAsian Times, display a Shahed-191 strike drone mounted on what appears to be a Toyota
Weapons Systems / Lasers
A Taiwan top military research unit will unveil a series of domestically made attack drones in Taichung Tuesday, including a loitering munition similar to the United States' AeroVironment Switchblade 300, a source told CNA. According to the unnamed source, the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) will
BVLOS
Drone Delivery Canada Corp. has announced that it has purchased from Canadian UAVs the first Sparrowhawk radar ground based detect and avoid system for deployment on DDC’s Care by Air delivery route. Sparrowhawk has been previously approved by Transport Canada to support beyond visual line of sight operations. The
Testing
A Cape Town-based technology start-up, FlyH2 Aerospace, has announced the successful maiden flights of its hydrogen-electric Dragonfly V drone, which is designed for commercial use. The fixed-wing STOL drone, which is capable of carrying heavy payloads, has a range of potential applications including agriculture pest control, farm security, and wildlife