Military
The leader of the Shia militant movement Hezbollah in Lebanon said his group is responsible for launching a UAS into Israel last week, and Iranians made it.Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said on the movement's television channel that the aircraft flew over "sensitive sites" in Israel. "
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The US Navy is confident that laser cannons will move out of science fiction and onto the decks of its surface ships by the end of the decade. Its futurists at the Office of Naval Research still have visions of scalable laser blasts that can fry an incoming missile at
Commercial
ING Engineering in Ottawa, Ontario, is a robotic aviation systems operator with UAS of different sizes for hire. “We’re a charter aviation company. We fly payloads, not people,” said ING founder and CEO Ian Glenn. The ING portfolio of platforms now ranges from theAeryon Scout to the company’s
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Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern first tested one a UAS about a year ago. Now he’s looking into possibly bringing one to the Bay Area. His office would be the first in California to do it. Armed with live-video-feeding capabilities and different features, like infrared devices, these aircraft can
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On September 27, 2012, during the test flight of an ANKA prototype aircraft, a technical problem occurred that caused it to crash. The ANKA performed its first flight in December 2010, and has flown a six-month-long development test flights programme (for a total of about 100 sorties), began acceptance testing
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The UK's manning level on the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper unmanned air system has been revealed, with the information disclosed in response to a parliamentary question. Asked "how many drone pilots are currently qualified in the Royal Air Force; and how many are undergoing training?
Accidents
Hobby radio-controlled aircraft test magazine Nitro Planes just posted this video compilation of crashes during flight tests. There are times where crashing is inevitable due to a wide variety of causes. We just so happened to catch some of them. Here are a few crashes from 2012. Source: YouTube
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Unmanned aircraft systems will make a significant contribution in defending the huge gas reservoirs that have been discovered in the Mediterranean off the Israeli coast. A senior source says that operational assessments made in recent months have determined that UAS will play a "major role" in surveillance tasks
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An unmanned aircraft shot down by F-16 jets in south Israel was apparently launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah, or perhaps even by the Iranians themselves. The Israeli Defence Force is looking into the possibility that the aircraft was supposed to photograph the Dimona reactor. A few hours after two fighter
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Chengyu Cao sees a day in the not-so-distant future when intelligent robots will be working alongside humans on a wide range of important tasks from advancing science, to performing deep sea rescues, to monitoring our natural habitats. It’s a bold leap from the pre-programmed factory robots and remote-controlled drones
Commercial
The Outback Rescue Challenge, a competition for developers of unmanned aircraft systems, was held at Kingaroy in Queensland from Monday to Wednesday. An unmanned aircraft was able to find a dummy of a missing bushwalker with no human intervention in what CSIRO believes is a world-first for a non-military UAS.
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The Indian Air Force is planning to induct its first self-destructing combat UAS from Israel by next year for enhancing its firepower. The Israeli-made unmanned combat air vehicle(UCAV) will give IAF the capability of hitting high value targets such as enemy missile and radar sites without sending its manned