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The BaToLUS project, Battle Damage Tolerance for Lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Structures, brought about a successful development of new rapid prototype modelling capabilities. The BaToLUS project involved major European aeronautical industries, top-rated European research institutes and also small European enterprises. The European Defence Agency (EDA) led cooperation brought together
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The number of anti-UAV weapons showing up indicates that the countries with larger defence budgets see a need for this sort of thing and are willing to pay for a solution. That need has been created by the growing availability of small, inexpensive UAVs that can (and are) used by
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In the sky of Syria, the number of coalition UAVs has increased by 3 times. This unusual footage taken by a Russian UAV shows an American UAV in flight over Syria. The Russians claim that the coalition UAVs are conducting reconnaissance missions over oil fields along the Syrian-Turkish border which
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that it has successfully performed the second flight of its Unmanned Tactical Aerial Platform (UTAP-22) on November 23, 2015, on the Navy test range at China Lake, CA. This was the second flight in the currently planned three-flight series, and consisted of collaborative
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After a long career in information technology and communications systems, Ben Berry's company that he founded in 2011, Lake Oswego-based AirShip Technologies Group, is set to begin production on a solar-powered, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — a drone called the V2. Two things set this new product by AirShip
Military
The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) completed a successful land-based operational assessment (OA) with the unmanned, autonomous helicopter MQ-8C Fire Scout, at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, Nov. 20. The OA demonstrated the endurance and sensor integration capabilities on the new MQ-8C airframe. The Fire
Agriculture
China’s SZ DJI Technology Co. is setting its sights on the agriculture industry with the launch of a crop sprayer that will test whether farming is fertile ground for drone technology. DJI has unveiled an eight-rotor drone priced at roughly $15,000 that is designed to spray pesticides on
Military
The US Air Force has hired civilian defence contractors to fly MQ-9 Reaper drones to help track suspected militants and other targets in global hot spots, a previously undisclosed expansion in the privatization of once-exclusively military functions. For the first time, civilian pilots and crews now operate what the Air
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U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Team assigned to the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., perform during the 2014 Nellis Air Force Base Open House Nov 8, 2014. This event also marked the end of the 2014 air show season for
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As the morning sun beat down on its nearly 131-foot wingspan, the EQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft descended from its 60,000-foot perch for the 500th time, coming to rest at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia Nov. 11. The Veterans Day landing was a historic one for the Global
Accidents
[video width="640" height="360" mp4="https://www.uasvision.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unidentified-warplane-has-reportedly-fallen-near-Turkey-s-Syrian-border-1.mp4"][/video] Turkish fighter jets have shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border, with conflicting claims over whether the downed aircraft violated Turkish airspace. The two pilots
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CACI International Inc has announced the release of SkyTracker, a precision system to protect high-value assets and support public safety against the escalating threat posed by the inadvertent or unlawful misuse of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). SkyTracker’s UAS detection, identification, and tracking system uses the drone’s radio links