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Replacing older HD50 model, HD55 houses sharper EO and IR cameras for better target ID HOOD RIVER, Ore. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 12, 2020 — Trillium Engineering, an industry leader in gimbaled camera systems for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), announced today that it has begun airborne testing of …

The Covid-19 pandemic has frozen much of the world’s aviation system, grounding fleets, shredding balance sheets, and stopping production lines as passenger demand craters. But in Ghana, a new fleet of aircraft took flight on Friday in an effort to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. These small drones, …

Experimental new drone program can use swarms of up to 250 air and ground vehicles to coordinate military raids In Mississippi, DARPA researchers successfully tested a new drone program The program is called Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics, or OFFSET OFFSET will allow DARPA personnel to control swarms of up to 250 drones …

A new “high performance” spy drone, dubbed the Ultra Long Endurance Aircraft Platform (Ultra LEAP), was recently tested at the US Air Force’s Edwards Air Force Base in California. Adapted from commercially available parts, the Ultra LEAP stayed aloft for two-and-a-half days without refueling, longer than most of the Pentagon’s …

Terra Drone Corporation has successfully demonstrated to Taiwanese government officials an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system developed jointly with Unifly. The test run of the UTM was conducted at Fukushima Robot Test Field in Japan in the presence of more than a dozen officials from Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, …

US airports may be just as vulnerable as London’s Gatwick airport to the kind of illegal drone incursions that shut down the UK’s second-busiest hub this week. Counter-drone technology performed so poorly in US government tests in recent years that the systems couldn’t reliably identify rogue unmanned aircraft, casting doubts …