BEIJING: The size of China’s low-altitude economy exceeded 500 billion yuan ($69.15 billion) in 2023, up by 33.8 percent year on year, according to a report. The report published on Monday by CCID consulting, a think tank under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has shown that the country’s …
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A drone show in Perth, Australia, didn’t quite go according to plan after a number of the flying machines fell out of the sky and crashed into the water during the performance. Sunday night’s “City of Light” event took place in front of thousands of onlookers, but as the show …
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The killing of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri (71) somewhere in Kabul last Saturday marks the triumph of technology. As US president Joe Biden claimed, there was no American on the ground in the Afghan capital to mastermind the highly-successful operation. It was a “precise, tailored airstrike”, using a drone, that …
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Hartford — Gov. Ned Lamont offered a glimpse of what a post-pandemic recovery might look like Tuesday when he invited reporters to a drone manufacturer that has taken over 15,000 square feet of office space in downtown Hartford. “You don’t have to have 3,000 employees necessarily, but there will be …
Read More »Greece Sees First Drones Being Launched in 2024
ATHENS – Seeing Turkey becoming a supplier of drones to countries at war that can even kill tanks from the sky – and with tensions still taut between them, Greece hopes to have its first drones working by 2024. The design of what’s called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is heading into …
Read More »Army sees counter-drone tools for cooks, medics — GCN
Army sees counter-drone tools for cooks, medics By Lauren C. Williams Feb 05, 2021 The Army is leading the Defense Department’s strategy for making platforms and devices to counter small unmanned aerial systems usable by all service members. In January, the Pentagon released its counter sUAS strategy, highlighting the threats posed …
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