Electronic Sub-Systems
At the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC), UTC Aerospace Systems announced the release of its new TASE400 LD optical and laser designation payload system for small to midsize UAS applications. At 7 inches in diameter and 10.6 pounds, with a laser designator that is fully compliant with NATO
Business
Romanian state-owned company Romaero has signed a memorandum of understanding with Israel’s unmanned aerial systems (UAS) company Aeronautics Group for maintaining UAS on Romanian soil and cooperate in training and instruction. According to the Israeli company, it will provide the Romanian company with the most advanced technological systems
Commercial
Training drones to fly fast, around even the simplest obstacles, is a crash-prone exercise that can have engineers repairing or replacing vehicles with frustrating regularity. Now MIT engineers have developed a new virtual-reality training system for drones that enables a vehicle to “see” a rich, virtual environment while
Military
At Insitu's Onward event at the CEDEA test range near Mazagón, on the Andalusian coast, The Register was able to observe the second ScanEagle 3 prototype, which was on its third demo flight – the two previous were restricted to potential customers only. Compared to the previous model, the
Regulations
At the request of the Department of Defense, and Federal security and law enforcement agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been using its existing authority under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations § 99.7 – “Special Security Instructions” – to address the potential threat posed by malicious drone operations
Business
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $206,009,932 firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive, and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to retrofit 122 MQ-9 Block 5 aircraft. Work will be performed at Poway, California, and is expected to be complete by June 20,
Military
The work on the Altius heavy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a combat load of up to two tons is planned to be completed within a year, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the information through its Facebook page. Borisov made this statement in
A team of computer scientists have built the smallest completely autonomous nano-drone that can control itself without the need for a human guidance. Although computer vision has improved rapidly thanks to machine learning and AI, it remains difficult to deploy algorithms on devices like drones due to memory, bandwidth
Automatic classification of trees using remotely sensed data has been a dream of many scientists and land use managers. Recently, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been expected to be an easy-to-use, cost-effective tool for remote sensing of forests, and deep learning has attracted attention for its ability
Commercial
Drones and companies using drones for video and photo footage has been a boom business is Croatia over the past few years. However, due to extremely tight restrictions put in place by the Croatian Civil Aviation Agency (CCAA) more and more calls have been coming from drone users to relax
K2 Unmanned Systems, LLC, a U.S. commercial drone manufacturer, flight ops and training company, has announced the release of the first American made Law Enforcement tactical drone, the Knight Hawk. The announcement was made at the 29th Annual APSA Fly In Training, a private event hosted by Pasadena Police
Business
Unmanned Aerial Systems Pty Ltd was awarded A$293,000 (USD 220,00) through the Defence Innovation Hub to combine features of a helicopter and a fixed wing aircraft in order to increase performance, efficiency and capability. Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, said: “Investing in Defence