Military
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. has announced that three branches of European military forces have taken delivery of the Company's newest fixed-wing drone innovation, the eBee VISION - the next generation in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance unmanned aerial systems pioneered by AgEagle. The rugged eBee VISION drone delivers live,
Research
A new study published in PLOS ONE tests the performance of UAV-based observation techniques in measuring pedestrian activity in two comparative settings in Santiago de Chile. Objective observation of pedestrian behavior on the street has traditionally been difficult due to the intensive commitment of time and resources to spatial analysis
Military
At the opening of SOFINS, the Special Forces exhibition, SURVEY Copter, an Airbus subsidiary since 2011 and a pioneer in the design, production and operational support of light tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), is presenting a new light tactical UAS: CAPA-X. The design of this light tactical UAS, imagined and
Military
Turkish defense firm Baykar Technologies has unveiled its new Bayraktar TB-3 drone for launch from naval vessels. Company chief technology officer Selcuk Bayraktar shared photos of the unmanned system on social media, revealing that it is now on the production line pending first flight. The TB-3 drone is described as
News
The Air Force is rigging F-16s to fly autonomously, but that’s not the main point of automating one of the service’s most numerous fighter jets, the commander of the Air Force Test Center said Monday. Instead, the Venom project aims to refine an AI engine to fly a
Software
Septentrio, a supplier of high-precision GNSS* positioning solutions, announces the start of the Agnostic Corrections Partner Program. This program facilitates the use of Septentrio receivers with various high-accuracy services, which offer varying levels of accuracy, coverage and delivery methods. This also allows integrators and users to select the service which
Commercial
DeltaQuad, a leading drone manufacturer in the Netherlands, has announced its relocation to a new facility in Duivendrecht, a suburb of Amsterdam. This move is part of the company’s growth plan and will allow them to increase production capacity, particularly for the new DeltaQuad Evo drone models.Modern facilities
Commercial
The Port Authority Office of Emergency Management (OEM), like many other government agencies, maintain an Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) Program to support of the OEM mission. To strengthen the Port Authority’s ability to prevent, mitigate, and respond to security risks and other natural or man-made hazards by developing and
Agriculture
Brothers Cameron and Bryce Jones have one ambitious goal: Plant one billion trees in Canada and across the world by 2028. With the help of technology, they’re well on their way to achieving that goal. Their startup Flash Forest deploys drones to shoot “seed pods” onto fire-damaged land to
Law Enforcement
Police patrols in the Middle East may soon be equipped with AI-powered drones capable of traffic and crowd analysis, 360 situational awareness, and more. The AI EagleEye Intelligent Patrol technology is the world’s first lightbar-embedded AI drone, launched by Dubai Police’s intelligent light-bars developer, Zenith Technologies. The fully
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As the US Air Force’s broader focus shifts to the Pacific and Europe, the U.S. military will rely on aging close air support aircraft to meet the needs of its forces in the Middle East, according to U.S. officials. A-10 Thunderbolt IIs plan to deploy to the
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Russia is bombarding Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure with hundreds of one-way attack drones in an attempt to shut down the power grid and freeze Kyiv into submission. Investigators who took apart one of the Shahed-131 drones supplied by Iran—the Russians have rebranded it as Geran-1 —discovered a surprisingly sophisticated,