By Kasey Cunningham, WRAL reporter Smithfield, N.C. — Drone video of stolen property led to an arrest in Johnston County, but the American Civil Liberties Union is questioning whether authorities had a search warrant to fly the drone over private property. According to warrant to search property along Woods Crossroads …
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Image credit: Skylogic Research As public safety programs around the country adopt drone technology to keep their teams and their communities safer, many struggle with how to get started. In these free resources developed by top drone analyst Colin Snow, departments of every size can take advantage of the lessons …
Read More »Citadel Scores USAF Counter-drone Contract
Photo courtesy of Citadel Counter-drone provider Citadel Defense Company this past week won another government contract – snagging a U.S. Airforce agreement to deploy the Titan mobile anti-drone system. Rogue drones present a new threat to military personnel in a myriad of battle scenarios – especially from aircraft launched by terrorist groups such …
Read More »The Delair UX11 UAV: Professional Grade Fixed Wing Covers Mo…
The Delair UX11 is a lightweight, professional grade fixed wing designed to cover more ground – and recent sales for mining and quarry environments indicate that customers are adopting it as a tool of choice. The recently released FAA Aerospace Forecast said that consumer grade drones used for commercial purposes (average …
Read More »Kratos, AeroVironment to Collaborate on Multidomain UAS Tech…
Kratos Defense & Security Systems has partnered with AeroVironment to develop an demonstrate a multidomain unmanned aerial system designed for near-peer, denied environment operations. Initial work will focus on demonstrating the potential of an integrated approach to launch, communicate and manage a small, tube-launched loitering aircraft deployed from a larger runway-independent unmanned aircraft, Kratos said Tuesday. Trace …
Read More »New DJI Product with Underwater Vibes Expected on May 15
Drone industry leader DJI has confirmed the launch of a new product on May 15th. The teaser has some distinctly underwater vibes and is offered with the tagline “Unleash your other side.” It doesn’t look as though a Phantom 5 is on the cards. The imagery also seems to suggest …
Read More »First-of-its-kind drone program in North Carolina is helping…
A North Carolina hospital is pioneering the use of drones to speed up the delivery of critical medical samples across WakeMed Hospital’s campus. The first-of-its-kind delivery program in the U.S. — a partnership with UPS — carries a small cooler of medical samples to a lab three quarters of a …
Read More »Major Drone Groups Cement Support for Know Before You Fly
“Partnership” may be the best way to describe the recent AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019 conference in Chicago. Across the expo, hundreds of UAV-centric groups and companies found new ways to collaborate to make an already-vibrant industry more effective. In the arena of drone-issue public education, perhaps no relationship is stronger than …
Read More »The FAA’s Aerospace Forecast is Out: and There are a Few Sur…
https://www.flickr.com/people/turtlemom_nancy/ [CC BY-SA 2.0 ] The FAA has released their annual aerospace forecast – and the drone industry figures are both impressive and surprising. We’ll dive into different areas of the forecasts in future articles: in this one, we’re looking at the numbers. DRONELIFE has reported on FAA Aerospace …
Read More »Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Drones Market Report Forecast …
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Drones Market report firstly introduced the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Drones industry basics: definitions, classifications, applications and market overview; product specifications; manufacturing processes; cost structures, raw materials and so on. Then it analyzed the world’s main region Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Drones market conditions, […] …
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