Lighter Than Air
Hovercraft can travel over land, water and ice. The technology behind the Hybrid Airship, the cargo-hauling ship of the skies, allows this hybrid craft to travel virtually anywhere.What is a hovercraft? It’s part boat, part airplane and part helicopter. While it may look a bit odd, how it
Technology
Belarus' KB Radar Design Bureau has developed satellite communications and navigation jamming systems that can be mounted on tactical-level unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Touman-2 has been designed to jam the downlink and transmission signals for equipment that uses Inmarsat, Thuraya, and Iridium satellite communications infrastructure, while the Touman-2.
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The UK Royal Navy has tested an unmanned speedboat on the River Thames ahead of a naval drone exercise off the UK coast this autumn. To the delight of tourists, Tower Bridge swung open to let through the sleek, low-slung craft, known as Mast (Maritime Autonomy Surface Testbed).Accompanied by
Commercial
Qualcomm Incorporated has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) and AT&T, will test Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), or drones, on commercial 4G LTE networks. The trials will analyse how UAS can operate safely and more securely on commercial 4G LTE and networks of the future, including
VTOL
NASA is now planning on using a UAV in addition to the Rover in order to explore Mars. The reasons are very simple, and parallel the desire to use UAV’s on earth. Having a camera in the air, instead of being stuck on the ground, allows for better perspective
C-UAS
Russia's newest Rubezh airspace control system is capable of identifying and tracking unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles and low-flying aircraft by using GSM networks, Izvestiya reported, adding that the innovative solution could also be employed to assist with rescue operations and to improve fire safety. GSM, also known
Research
A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot. This small, 3D-printed robot — nicknamed the octobot — could pave the way for a new generation of completely soft, autonomous machines. Soft robotics could revolutionize how humans
Commercial
Drones are coming, and they’re going to change a lot of things about how we shape our lives. So why shouldn’t we change how we shape our buildings to get ready for them? Early adopters will probably buy personal flying vehicles in the not too distant future. Some
Technology
Russian media has announced that Russian scientists have designed and are testing a kind of "cloth" or cover that will make its military equipment invisible to precision-guided smart bombs and missiles favoured by the United States military. New technology in this special "cloth" will prevent smart
Technology
Senseable, a small danish drone technology developing company, has announced a new product for remote sensing and monitoring. During development, the unit was called the dropship, named because of it’s ability to be delivered by drone (dropped or put down). The Dropship can be equipped with a large range
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Virtually all current imaging methods rely on light traveling directly from the object to be imaged to the imaging device. Although direct, ballistic, single-bounce light components generally make up a large portion of the total light that is collected by an imaging system, there is a significant contribution from multi-bounce
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Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Abu Dhabi early on Tuesday morning after completing the first Round-the-World solar flight in history. Bertrand Piccard made one last smooth landing, kissing the warm tarmac with his solar airplane after a 48 hour and 37 minute flight in Al1 Bateen Executive Airport, Abu