Terra Drone Corporation, a leading technology company in the drone and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) industry, has announced its acquisition of majority shares in Unifly, the global leader in UTM Technology. In Unifly’s 2016 Series A funding round, Terra Drone took the lead investment position, partnering with QBIC and PMV, …
Read More »D-Fend Solutions launches EnforceAir2 Counter-UAS
D-Fend Solutions, the leader in radio frequency (RF), cyber-based, non-kinetic, non-jamming, counter-drone takeover technology, has announced the launch of its new product, EnforceAir2. The next-generation product features the best offerings of the original award-winning EnforceAir technology with enhanced, expanded, and extended C-UAS capabilities. The system now comes with even more …
Read More »NOAA’s Hurricane hunters monitor hurricanes from the eye of …
Hurricane season is starting to ramp up, with a rare storm hitting in southern California and increased activity in the Atlantic. The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season officially began June 1, and hurricane hunters are at the ready to fly in and around these tropical systems to provide forecasters with the …
Read More »Iran unveils armed drone, claims it could reach Israel
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Defense Ministry unveiled a drone on Tuesday resembling America’s armed MQ-9 Reaper, claiming that the aircraft is capable of staying airborne for 24 hours and has the range to reach the country’s archenemy Israel. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency published a photograph of the drone, …
Read More »Palantir NHS contract: Trump donor’s firm was shoo-in for da…
US spy-tech firm Palantir was a shoo-in for a multi-million-pound NHS contract months before the deal was signed, emails obtained by openDemocracy appear to show. The email exchange from 2020, in which senior NHS executives discussed the budget for a new national data platform, sees more than one person referring …
Read More »The War in Ukraine Is No Game of Drones – The American Spect…
Politicians and pundits want to declaim the lessons we should learn from Russia’s war against Ukraine despite the fact that the war — now eighteen months old — may not yet have reached its halfway point. Russian President Putin, as I have written before, wants to keep the war going …
Read More »New method for dynamic drone tracking in GPS-denied environm…
ADVERTISEMENT New method for dynamic drone tracking in GPS-denied environments by Staff Writers Fuzhou, China (SPX) Aug 21, 2023 A study published in Engineering introduces a novel image-based visual servoing (IBVS) method for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to track dynamic targets in GPS-denied environments. Titled “Dynamic Target Tracking …
Read More »Russia might have targeted drone exhibition in Chernihiv, se…
Rescuers work after a Russian missile attack in the center of Chernihiv, August 19, 2023 (Photo:National Police/Handout via REUTERS) “The exhibition, which took place today, Aug. 19, 2023, in the city, was not agreed with the Chernihiv City Council. No permits were granted,” the Chernihiv City Council stated. The exhibition’s …
Read More »The Drone that Flies Itself Hoverair X1
Zero Zero Robotics, a tech company specializing in embedded AI technology, has unveiled the HoverAir X1 – a compact and autonomous aerial camera that takes the art of drone photography to new heights. The HoverAir X1 offers users features ranging from pre-programmed flight modes to stabilization technology, all bundled in …
Read More »GA-ASI advances ecosystem for autonomously operational UCAV
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) advanced its ability to operationalize the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) ecosystem by combining advanced autonomy and government-provided human-machine interface (HMI) hardware. A GA-ASI-owned Avenger® Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) was paired with “digital twin” aircraft to autonomously conduct Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) multi-objective …
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