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Lockheed Martin successfully completed the initial flight test of its T-50A configured aircraft. The T-50A is the company’s aircraft offering in the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Pilot Training competition. The T-50A is low risk and ready now. It builds on the proven heritage of
Military
Reliable sources told India Strategic that the Predator C requirement has been mentioned at a very high level during the current visit of the Indian Prime Minister. Now that India is getting into the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), President Barack Obama will ask the State and Defense Departments to
C-UAS
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has revealed the Drone Guard - a new system for drone detection, identification and flight disruption. The IAI said that it has recently begun to sell this system to some customers, after it was also successfully tested in scenarios of simultaneous drone attacks. The Drone Guard is
Propulsion
The US Army plans to release a solicitation for a Block III engine for its Textron Systems RQ-7B Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft system (UAS) later this year, according to the army's product manager for the platform. "We are absolutely doing a full and open competition"
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The Thunderbirds perform at the Air Commandos on the High Plains Airshow. The 2016 Cannon AFB Airshow is an opportunity to celebrate the long-standing relationship between the 27th Special Operations Wing and the High Plains community. Video by Airman 1st Class Treven Cannon 27th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs.
Working deeply with CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research) in 2012, French startup Terabee has taken IR-based time-of-flight (ToF) to centimetre-level, boasting update frequencies up to 1kHz for fast moving robots and drones. The company's lead product, TeraRanger One, is a 35x29x18mm standalone device
Military
Amid continuing clashes with ethnic rebels, Myanmar's military is confirmed as having deployed unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) for counter-insurgency operations in the north of the Southeast Asian country. First inducted into the inventory of the Myanmar Air Force (Tatmadaw Lay) in 2013 or 2014, one or
Military
Army Apaches are using a new technology in Afghanistan which enables the attack helicopter crews to view real-time video feeds from nearby drones, control the drones’ flight path and therefore more effectively destroy enemy targets, service officials told Scout Warrior. Manned-Unmanned Teaming, or MUM-T, gives AH-64E
Testing
The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) and the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) have executed a historic teaming agreement with EHang, Inc., a technological innovation company specializing in Research & Development, manufacturing, and sales of intelligent aerial vehicles. The agreement will provide the foundation for collaboration between
Commercial
Start-up company SkyFallX unveiled a fully autonomous parachute system for drones last year. The purpose of the system is to reduce danger to people and property on the ground. The company is now seeking strategic partners to help enter mass-production. The SkyFallX parachute system uses on-board sensors
Regulations
Due to the fast-growing number of drone operations, Minister of Transport Alexander Dobrindt recently announced the revision of the rules governing the use of civil drones in Germany. According to the minister, such use is not sufficiently regulated (eg, light drones equipped with cameras that can be controlled by
Commercial
At the Drones Data X Conference in San Francisco, Mike Winn, co-founder and CEO of DroneDeploy, announced in his keynote that our users had achieved a new industry milestone: 3,000,000 drone mapped acres across 120 countries. Drones combined with software platforms for collecting and analyzing drone data