Military
Kyiv-based Luch Design Bureau last week unveiled its Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) project, the Sokil-300 (Falcon-300), a strike drone slated to be the first designed and produced exclusively in Ukraine. The opening presentation at the Vizar missile plant outside Kyiv featured a full-size model of the combat-ready UAS. Chief designer,
News
SkySensus, an R&D project that is funded and led by Peraton Canada for the research and development, and commercialization of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) in unmanned systems, announced that it was selected to fulfil Canada’s official Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Traffic Management (RTM) Service
News
F-drones successfully completed the first commercial night drone delivery. The delivery was made in Singapore on 1 November 2020 to Berge Sarstein, owned by Berge Bulk. F- drones helped to send a 3D printed critical part weighing 3 kilograms over 5 kilometers within 7 minutes. The payload was the world’
Research
One can tell a lot from the composition of the gasses coming from active volcanoes about what is happening deep beneath. It is even possible to predict when an active volcano will erupt causing widespread damage, yet gathering this critical data can be extremely hazardous to the scientists studying the
Drone Light Shows
With masked spectators watching from below, hundreds of drones have lit up the night sky in South Korea's capital in a synchronised display to encourage citizens to remain vigilant against the coronavirus. More than 300 drones flew in the performance above Olympic Park in southern Seoul, forming images
Software
FlytBase, Inc has announced the release of hardware-agnostic cloud-based drone APIs, enabling enterprises to easily integrate drones with their business applications. Drones are rapidly transitioning into fully-automated commercial tools that are being deployed for a range of applications, e.g., aerial security, delivery, public-safety, inspections, surveys. With increasing levels of
Military
The Polish Ministry of Defense just released new photos showing one of the MQ-9 drones of the 52nd Expeditionary Operations Group Detachment 2, the unit operating the MQ-9 Reaper in Europe, flying over Lask Air Base, Poland, with the new L3 SIGINT pod. The Reaper with registration N428HK was featured
News
The company behind the drone show at president-elect Biden’s victory speech on Saturday November 7 in Wilmington, was Verge Aero based in Pennsylvania. 'This event is certainly a first on many fronts,' Nils Thorjussen, Verge Aero's CEO, says. 'While I’m unable discuss the
Research
The ‘Interim' Results of the Global UAS OPS survey on drone operations, which reflect the answers received from the survey respondents up to 1 October 2020, have been published and are available (free-of-charge) for downloading by all interested parties. Click HERE to download. If you would like the Interim
Research
DARPA recently awarded contracts to five companies to develop algorithms enabling mixed teams of manned and unmanned combat aircraft to conduct aerial dogfighting autonomously. Boeing, EpiSci, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Heron Systems, and physicsAI were chosen to develop air combat manoeuvring algorithms for individual and team tactical behaviours under Technical
Research
Leaders with Middle Tennessee State University and the 118th Wing of the Tennessee Army National Guard signed an agreement, on Nov. 3, to collaborate in several areas, notably in research of unmanned aircraft systems operations and computer science. The memorandum of understanding signed by MTSU Provost Mark Byrnes, Tennessee Adjutant
Commercial
Aerodyne Japan, a subsidiary of Malaysia-headquartered international DT3 (Drone Tech, Data Tech, and Digital Transformation) solutions provider Aerodyne Group, and Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory (ACSL), a Tokyo-based manufacturer of autonomous industrial drones, are joining forces to break new ground in Level 4 (high) automation testing of commercial drones in the