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Police in Queensland, Australia, are testing a hi-tech surveillance UAS that can be used to chase criminals, detect drug crops and find missing people all at a fraction of the cost of a helicopter. A police spokesman confirmed testing was under way but would not give details on what the
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With the new 2.4 MAVinci Desktop Release, MAVinci introduces a novelity on the UAS market: theadvanced Multi Flight Planning Tool for mapping applications. It automatically calculates multiple flight plans to cover areas which exceed the range of one flight. “The acquisition of large area orthophotos and DEMs is optimised
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Israel and Russia contracted a deal several years ago under which Israel provided Russia with codes for UAS it sold to Georgia in exchange for Iranian aerial defence system codes. WikiLeaks has released an email exchange between employees of Stratfor, the US-based global intelligence company, which reveals that Israel and
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Aerial photography company Aerialtronics, based in The Hague, Netherlands, just posted this scoop video taken of one of its Altura Hexacopters flying inside the Dutch Parliament. The public TV News Channel NOS commissioned the project for their political review of 2011.They wanted to make unique shots of the Dutch
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This amateur video recorded few days ago shows an unmanned aircraft flying over Kafr Batna, a small suburb of Damascus, Syria. Damascus is known to be equipped with just a few types of UAS. Among them, the Iranian made Mohajer 4 and Ababil and maybe also the Mirsad-1 that Hezbollah
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Germany's armed forces and police currently operate 331 high-tech UAS inside and outside the country, and the government intends to swell the fleet, according to a media report that has alarmed civil rights advocates. According to a report published Wednesday in news magazine Der Spiegel, an official parliamentary
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Paris is open to offers from Germany and Italy to join an Anglo-French project to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned air system, according to the head of France's DGA Defence Procurement Agency. "No door is closed" to either country co-operating in the study being carried
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The ‘HoverMast’ developed by the Israeli start-up company Sky Sapience is scheduled to go on an operational demonstration in the upcoming months, demonstrating the system’s capability to expand the surveillance coverage of unmanned ground vehicles. The payload currently integrated on the HoverMast is the T-Stamp from Controp, a stabilized
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A briefcase filled with documents relating to a new Franco-British UAS project has been stolen at the Gare du Nord station in Paris. Police have been examining closed circuit film to discover who took the papers, reportedly on 2 February. UK PM David Cameron discussed a plan for a common
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Thales UK has confirmed that it has provided France's DGA procurement agency and army with technical information about the Watchkeeper tactical unmanned aircraft system, as its British Army launch customer prepares to begin operational field trials with the type. French interest in the Watchkeeper system was revealed during
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A model of the US RQ-170 captured on December 4, 2011, was displayed at Tehran during the pro-government rallies marking the 33rd anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution on February 11th. According to the Fars news agency, that has released a very small image taken by the Iranian
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Kazakhstan government officials have accused Uzbekistan of violating its airspace with an unmanned aircraft, backing the claim up with video showing the purported incursion. The incident happened February 16 in the area of Beyneu, on the far western end of the Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan border, according to KTK TV, citing sources in