Business
Last week Parrot group reported 64% growth. That might come as a bit of a surprise to many owners of Parrot drones, since the company 'finalized' sales of consumer drones in 2021 but in fact Parrot – and the Anafi brand – is still very much in business, and made
Military
Turkish defense firm Baykar Technologies has unveiled its new Bayraktar TB-3 drone for launch from naval vessels. Company chief technology officer Selcuk Bayraktar shared photos of the unmanned system on social media, revealing that it is now on the production line pending first flight. The TB-3 drone is
Electronic Sub-Systems
Embention, with more than 15 years of experience and specialised in Autopilots and Motor Controllers developed in compliance with the aeronautical certification standards DO178C and DO254, has announced a collaboration with Dronetech. Dronetech, a company specialising in the design and manufacture of UAVs, develops VTOL aircraft that maximise safety and
Testing
Airbus Defence and Space and the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Airbus UpNext, have achieved in-flight autonomous guidance and control of a drone using an A310 MRTT. In a first step towards Autonomous Formation Flight and Autonomous Air-to-Air refuelling (A4R), the technologies demonstrate a significant breakthrough for
The Air Force is rigging F-16s to fly autonomously, but that’s not the main point of automating one of the service’s most numerous fighter jets, the commander of the Air Force Test Center said Monday. Instead, the Venom project aims to refine an AI engine to fly
Software
Septentrio, a supplier of high-precision GNSS* positioning solutions, announces the start of the Agnostic Corrections Partner Program. This program facilitates the use of Septentrio receivers with various high-accuracy services, which offer varying levels of accuracy, coverage and delivery methods. This also allows integrators and users to select the
Electronic Sub-Systems
uAvionix has announced that it is introducing truSky ADS-B “spoofing” detection for its SkyLine Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) services. The innovation provides pilots and controllers confidence by validating that an individual aircraft ADS-B signal is indeed coming from an aircraft and not
Military
Turkish tech firm Robit Technology has developed a new multipurpose kamikaze drone called 'Azab' with a long-range flight distance. The delta-winged platform, which has a high payload capacity, passed all flight tests successfully. Firing tests of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are planned to be carried
Commercial
DeltaQuad, a leading drone manufacturer in the Netherlands, has announced its relocation to a new facility in Duivendrecht, a suburb of Amsterdam. This move is part of the company’s growth plan and will allow them to increase production capacity, particularly for the new DeltaQuad Evo drone models.Modern facilities
Commercial
The Port Authority Office of Emergency Management (OEM), like many other government agencies, maintain an Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) Program to support of the OEM mission. To strengthen the Port Authority’s ability to prevent, mitigate, and respond to security risks and other natural or man-made hazards by developing
Agriculture
Brothers Cameron and Bryce Jones have one ambitious goal: Plant one billion trees in Canada and across the world by 2028. With the help of technology, they’re well on their way to achieving that goal. Their startup Flash Forest deploys drones to shoot “seed pods” onto fire-damaged land
Law Enforcement
Police patrols in the Middle East may soon be equipped with AI-powered drones capable of traffic and crowd analysis, 360 situational awareness, and more. The AI EagleEye Intelligent Patrol technology is the world’s first lightbar-embedded AI drone, launched by Dubai Police’s intelligent light-bars developer, Zenith