A South Florida jury convicted a California woman of conspiring to send a $50 million missile-firing drone and jet fighter engines to China via Broward County. According to prosecutors, Man, who runs a small electronics store, worked with a Chinese military agent to export the drone and several fighter
Leonardo’s recently revealed Osprey 30 lightweight active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been selected by the US Navy for integration on the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Fire Scout unmanned air vehicle. A contract was signed on 26 May, a Naval Air Systems Command notification says, that will see
Military
The South Korean military is testing Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles to patrol the Yellow Sea, a high-ranking military official said last week. They will be deployed in early August. The military will deploy drones on the Northern Limit Line (NLL) and is planning to eventually form a UAV squad.
Military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) has announced the successful flight tests of Predator C Avenger, equipped with a MS-177 Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensor manufactured by UTC Aerospace Systems. MS-177, an advanced sensor in UTC’s SYERS family of sensors, is a key component that
Testing
UK defence and security company BAE Systems has unveiled plans to build the world’s first autonomous military drone, proposing a scenario where unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) would work alongside conventional manned aircraft. The multinational described a war-plane drone which would advance its existing Taranis model to penetrate
First Responders
As the 2016 wildfire season begins, federal agencies are again alerting industry and the public that the use of private drones (Unmanned Aircraft Systems or UAS) over or near active wildfire operations puts firefighters at risk and hampers their ability to protect lives, property and natural resources. To underscore the
Testing
New research by a Johns Hopkins computer security team has raised concerns about how easily hackers could cause these robotic devices to ignore their human controllers and land or, more drastically, crash. Five security informatics graduate students and their professor discovered three different ways to send rogue commands from a
Commercial
Usage-based insurance (UBI) is exploding as a phenomenon in the auto industry. Now, Acend, a telematics, software and data science provider, will deliver that same groundbreaking service to the unmanned aerial systems (UAS) market.Through a strategic partnership between Acend and PrecisionHawk, a leading provider of aerial data and
Events
A world-class conference program and several new educational and networking features will take place at the 2nd annual Drone World Expo, the defining event for the commercial applications of UAS technology, taking place at the San Jose Convention Center, Tuesday, November 15 - Wednesday, November 16, 2016. Following a very
Weapons Systems / Lasers
The US military successfully targeted and destroyed a moving truck from a drone using the missile designed to replace the venerable Hellfire. The Joint Air To Ground Missile (JAGM) was fired May 25 at a truck traveling at 20 mph from a Grey Eagle drone at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
Commercial
A UK start-up is developing a high tech concept that it believes will one day enable it to plant one billion trees every year, contributing to efforts to tackle global deforestation and contributing towards greater overall sustainability. Deforestation continues to significantly outstrip our best conservation efforts. Illegal logging, land
Kokam Co., Ltd, announced that it has conducted ballistic tests on battery cells using its unique Lithium Ion NANO battery technology and determined that even when these cells are shot they do not experience thermal runaway. This test helps demonstrate how Kokam’s NANO battery technology provides the defence industry