After a year and a half of delays due to COVID-19, the Aviation Unmanned Vehicle Museum (AUVM) — the world's first museum dedicated to the history of drones — had its grand opening in Caddo Mills. Containing more than 40 restored historic drones, the museum's exhibits were
C-UAS
The SkyWall Patrol Net-Capture and HP47 handheld-jamming systems have been used together by leading specialist law enforcement across Europe since 2016. Combining electronic defeat and physical capture to provide a highly effective CUAS capability. OpenWorks and HP are now combining forces to show a new track-defeat concept
Patents
Drone Delivery Canada Corp. announced that on November 23, 2021, the United States Patent Office granted a patent 11,181,933 for DDC’s patent application titled ‘Location for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Landing and Taking Off’. This patent is related to DDC’s previously granted U.S. patents 10,625,
Propulsion
Thanks to six years of experience in this field, Berlin-based Skycharge has announced a new charging technology for drones and AGVs, engineered to let you build charging pads, and AGV docking stations. In principle the solution is very simple. When the contacts installed on the drone/robot come in
Video
This Bf 109 fought in the Battle of Britain, crash landed in 1940, and ended up on display. The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was matched only by the Supermarine Spitfire. It was the Luftwaffe’s only single seat fighter for the first few years of the Second World War and the
First Responders
Schiebel, together with Andøya Space Defence, successfully demonstrated the capabilities of the CAMCOPTER S-100 on board the coast guard vessel KV Nordkapp in Norwegian waters. The purpose of the trials was to demonstrate the embarked Search and Rescue (SAR) and maritime surveillance capabilities of the CAMCOPTER S-100 in
Business
As part of its digitization strategy, Rheinmetall AG of Düsseldorf is taking over the activities of EMT, a well-known German unmanned aerial vehicle maker. An agreement to this effect has now been signed by both parties. Headquartered in Penzberg in Bavaria, the company EMT Ingenieurgesellschaft Dipl.-Ing. Hartmut Euer
Business
Paras Aerospace Private Limited, India, a subsidiary of Paras Defence and Space Technologies Limited has announced the launch of Universal UTM product for enabling Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) with High Lander, Israel, a drone technology provider with significant experience in the aviation field. The association with High Lander
China looks to have launched an odd mini-aircraft carrier of sorts that is intended to launch and recover small aerial drones earlier this year. A model of this catamaran vessel appeared at this year's Zhuhai Airshow, where it was ostensibly described as a platform for mimicking enemy
Testing
The U.S. Navy and Boeing are completing ground tests of the MQ-25 Stingray test asset at Chambers Field onboard Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. "The Stingray is the future of naval aviation. It is the first aircraft carrier-based unmanned air vehicle (UAV),” said Rear Adm. John Meier,
Inspections
Cleo Robotics, the first company to successfully develop a stable and highly maneuverable ducted bi-rotor drone, announces the availability of the Dronut X1 for law-enforcement, industrial inspection, construction and defense markets. Cleo’s patented thrust vectoring technology has, for the first time ever, made the hyper-efficient ducted
C-UAS
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) briefed the head of Jordan’s navy on U.S. 5th Fleet efforts to integrate new unmanned systems during a visit to U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain, Nov. 18. Personnel from NAVCENT’s Task Force 59 briefed Col. Hisham Khaleel Aljarrah, commander