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[Hover over image for video] The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is testing a Draganflyer to hover over crash sites and crime scenes to take photos or beam video back to officers on the ground. The remote-controlled unmanned aircraft should help crash analysts get better, faster images to reconstruct what happened.
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The Green X Robird will be demonstrated during the upcoming European Commission UAS Panel Workshop at Eurocontrol in Brussels, Belgium on 13-14 September 2011. Robirds have been developed to closely resemble birds of prey and precisely imitate their flight profile, and thereby be an effective tool to decrease the risks
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When the Japanese government began to fear a nuclear disaster after the March earthquake and tsunami, the US Air Force sent a Global Hawk based in Guam to help. The RQ-4 Global Hawk arrived 22 hours after the earthquake struck, and the images they captured identified the boundaries of the
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Scion Aviation has unveiled two new unmanned helicopters designed to challenge the Saab Skeldar and Schiebel S-100 in bids for US contracts. The company intends to start flight tests in the fourth quarter of this year with a 68kg (150lb)-class UAS called Weasel, said chief executive Jim Sampson. The
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The US Geological Survey will use unmanned aircraft flights to monitor river bank erosion on the Lower Brule reservation on the west bank of the Missouri River in central South Dakota in the United States. The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe estimates that the reservation is losing some eight feet of
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From September to the end of October, a NASA thermal- infrared scanning instrument will stand ready to support the U.S. Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection with real-time imagery of fire characteristics. In 2006, with the AMS mounted in the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems&
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A Hermes 450, known as RQ-450 when operated by the Brazilian Air Force located a clandestine runway close to the border with Columbia. It was taking part in Operation Agatha, which began on August 7 and involves the Army, Navy, Air Force and other government agencies such as the Federal
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The Spanish government is considering introducing unmanned aircraft to increase their maritime border surveillance in the Strait of Gibraltar. Tests have already taken place. All of the main routes of drug trafficking into Spain go across water, said David Rios-Morentin, a manager from the Border Management Systems division of Spanish
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UAS industry leaders in Dayton have announced that they will work with a North Dakota organization to develop and market UAS services for agriculture. UAVision, a Dayton business that manufactures small unmanned aircraft of between four and 45 pounds, and the University of Dayton-led Institute for the Development and Commercialization
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Russian unmanned systems manufacturer Zala Aero Group used the MAKS 2011 airshow in Moscow to unveil a new UAS, which it says has already been purchased by a Russian security agency. Under development for the past 14 months, the ZALA 421-16E tactical UAS is a 2.8m flying wing in
Electronic Sub-Systems
The US government has confirmed that it is deploying a new Northrop Grumman radar on unmanned aircraft systems to detect illegal immigrants and drug smugglers on the southwest border. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operators have operated the vehicle and dismount exploitation radar (VADER) on the agency's General
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The Poker Flat Research Range (run by the University of Alaska Fairbanks) which operates unmanned systems , has an agreement with the Tanana Chiefs Conference, (also in Fairbanks and which provides local government functions to Alaskan Natives villages), to assist the villages to develop the most accurate, complete, and cost-effective cadastral