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U.S. aerospace company Exelis Inc. is close to unveiling a low-altitude surveillance system for drones, the latest sign of how a "highway in the sky" is likely to evolve. The system, whose existence has not been previously reported, shows how Exelis and other companies are racing to
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The Secret Service is conducting middle-of-the-night drone flights near the White House in secret tests to devise a defence against the unmanned aircraft. The government-controlled drones will be flown between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. during the next several weeks over parts of Washington —airspace that's
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The US Navy has awarded nine companies a spot on a maximum $99 million set of contracts to provide software development and other services for the Naval Air Systems Command’s Strike Planning and Execution Systems, which supports a number of air, sea and ground missions. Work under the indefinite-delivery/
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The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) says it is being inundated with an unprecedented number of applications to commercially operate drones. As the technology improves and prices decline, drones have become more accessible in recent years and there are many models on the market. Drones are also called unmanned
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"Drones are here to stay, and they are a very valuable tool," said Randy Anglin of Lionstrike Forensics. "But kites and balloons have become a very valuable tool for what we do." They've also become necessary. Since the FAA placed a ban on all
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Plans to test drones at Newquay Airport are being opposed by the government, according to a leaked briefing note. The note from the Cornish airport warns that Department for Transport (DfT) officials feel Newquay would be unable to separate drones from other aircraft. Airport bosses say it would be possible
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Just a few months ago we heard about the HexH2o, a waterproof hexacopter that can shoot both aerial and underwater footage. While it looks like it could be a lot of fun, its US$3,658 price tag certainly isn't for everyone. If you don't mind
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Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a new laser weapon able to successfully disable the engine of a truck from over a mile away. Sounding like something out of a science fiction movie, the Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) is a ground-based system that features a 30kW, single-mode fibre-optic laser that
Military
The U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has achieved a significant decrease in cost per flight hour coupled with a sharp increase in flight hours in 2014. The Global Hawk programme has brought the system's cost per flight hour
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Google is gearing up to test its solar-powered drone project – dubbed “Project Titan” – sometime this year as part of its continued efforts to bring service to some of the four billion people without Internet access. Sundar Pichai, a Senior VP at Google who oversees Android, Chrome and Google apps, made
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An Al Jazeera journalist has been fined €1,000 (£725;$1,120) for flying a drone in Paris last week in the midst of a security alert sparked by unexplained drone sightings across the city.Tristan Redman, 34, from the Qatar-based network al-Jazeera, was arrested last month in the Bois
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Officials with privately-owned Turkish firm Vestel Savunma said its Karayel UAV has passed a critical flight test, flying with an electro-optical camera and a total payload of 51 kilograms, and is ready to enter the Turkish military's inventory. Vestel has been developing the tactical done since 2005, investing