Training
The Ukrainian Air Force will be ready to use Bayraktar TB2 UAV systems in the near future, the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has said. "A training course for Ukrainian servicemen to operate and maintain Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle systems is underway in Kesan, Turkey. About
Commercial
Growing up and working in California’s Salinas Valley, Jaclyn Bennett has long heard the complaints from growers who want to use beneficial insects but bemoan the man-hours needed to disperse them in the field. “The industry standard is by hand,” she says. “With labor costs and shortages, they
Commercial
Drone Delivery Canada ‘DDC' has announce completion of DDC’s new commercial operations center, the first of its kind globally, located in Vaughan, Ontario which is now open and ready for operations. The state-of-the-art operations center is a 16,000 square foot facility and when at
Weapons Systems / Lasers
Polish Company WZL 2 presents its Dragonfly UAVS (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System) at MSPO 2019, the International Defense Industry Exhibition in Poland. The Dragonfly is a quadcopter designed for combat operations in urban areas and can carry a warhead to conduct precision strikes against targets up to lightly armored threats.
Electronic Sub-Systems
OmniPreSense Corporation, a supplier of Short-Range Radar (SRR) sensors, has announced its first 2D radar sensor, the OPS243-C. The OPS243-C operates as both a Doppler and FMCW radar sensor capable of reporting the speed, direction, and range for objects in its field of view.The extra reporting
Business
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, was awarded a $29,316,074 modification (P00016) to contract W58RGZ-19-C-0027 for performance based logistics support services for the MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system. Work will be performed in Poway, California, with an estimated completion date of Sept.
Commercial
The U-space SAFIR consortium, a group of 13 public and private organisations, hosted an open day on September 5th at the DronePort, Sint-Truiden and successfully showcased integrated drone traffic management for a broad range of drone operations. European Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc came to see the progress
With FAA’s Terry Wilmeth and Rich Davis along with University of Alaska Fairbanks representatives Jimmy Parrish, Tom Elmer and Nick Adkins, Northwest UAV’s Flight, Analysis, and System Test (FAST) UAV Range completed its inaugural flight Wednesday, September 4th. The Certificate of Authorization (COA) obtained by the University of
Commercial
Altitude Angel, a global UTM (unmanned traffic management) provider, has announced that it is to launch the world’s first ‘just culture’ reporting system for drone pilots and operators. Emulating the approach already successfully established in manned aviation, where Mandatory Occurrence Report (MOR) and Voluntary Occurrence Reports (VOR) are submitted
Business
Baykar Makina, the private Turkish drone maker with family ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will receive government support to expand output. The company plans to invest 600 million liras ($106 million) to increase its production of unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a presidential decree published Thursday in the nation’
C-UAS
Engineers in China have developed a new drone to catch illegal unmanned aerial vehicles Spider-Man style. The cutting-edge aircraft, billed as a 'fighting drone', is said to be able to fire a 172-square-feet net over its target, causing it to lose power and fall
Commercial
Facing dreaded pest disease caused by fall armyworm, XAG is among the first to introduce fully autonomous drones in some of the most affected countries, such as Zambia, South Africa, Vietnam and China, to improve the control efficacy that has originally been limited to manual spraying. XAG has discovered that