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The drone delivery landscape is rapidly evolving, with companies like Amazon, Walmart, Zipline, DJI, and Matternet all playing a role. It is also driven by a combination of factors, including technological advancements with drones having a longer battery life, increased payload capacity, and improved autonomous capabilities. Governments around the world …

Skyports Drone Services in collaboration with Makutu has successfully completed maiden test flights for a new drone inspection service set to help water companies monitor and improve the quality of river and coastal water. The new service, which combines Skyports Drone Services’ expert remote drone operations and winch technology with …

Advertisement Advertisement Retailer, partners to start service in Dallas-Fort Worth Today at 2:00 a.m. by Dylan Sherman People walk by the Walmart booth during the CES 2024 tech show in Las Vegas on Tuesday. (AP/John Locher) Walmart plans to expand drone delivery to customers in a large portion of the …

Türkiye’s unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), Bayraktar TB3, tailored for the country’s newly commissioned aircraft carrier, successfully completed a long-duration flight test on Wednesday, remaining airborne for 32 hours, its developer said. According to the statement from Baykar, after its first flight on Oct. 27, Bayraktar TB3 UCAV underwent consecutive …

Matternet, the developer of the leading urban drone delivery platform, announced that it has received approval from the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA), Germany’s Federal Aviation Office, to operate the Matternet M2 drone delivery platform beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) in the heart of Berlin. This marks the beginning of Berlin’s …

A drone has hit an Israeli-affiliated merchant vessel off the coast of India in the Arabian Sea, a UK maritime security firm has said. It was the first such known attack so far away from the Red Sea since the Israel-Hamas war began. There has been an increasing number of …

An undercover operation by the Pennsylvania Game Commission has led to several charges filed against the owner of a drone deer recovery business. The Game Commission filed four citations against Joshua Wingenroth of Downingtown for an incident that occurred Dec. 6 at the Welsh Mountain Nature Preserve in Lancaster County. …

PDW, an innovator in unmanned aerial systems (UAS), announced that its man-packable and heavy-lift quadcopter, the C100, has received approval for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Blue UAS program. The Department of Defense (DoD) developed the Blue UAS program to rapidly vet and scale commercial UAS technology. The C100 is a …

Boeing has now delivered the first of its Orca extra-large unmanned undersea vehicles, or XLUUVs, to the U.S. Navy. Delivery submarine drone has been delayed by several years, in part due to differences between Orca and its prototype as well as the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The delivery was …

Here is a question for policy makers, international agencies, ministers of trade, transport and naval strategists. Is it even remotely acceptable that the peaceful passage of merchant ships through one of the world’s most important international sea routes should be subjected to attacks by heavily armed rebel forces controlling the …