REPORT: Taipei has expressed an interest in obtaining loitering munitions matching the AeroVironment Switchblade 300 or the Anduril Altius-600, ‘Foreign Policy’ said By Wu Che-wei and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer Taiwan is seeking US-made kamikaze drones in an apparent concession to pressure from Washington to focus …
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The NYPD has more than tripled its use of drones in the last year, most recently deploying them 13 different times to monitor public protests last month, according to police data. Between April and June of this year, the department deployed drones 143 times. Before that, it had never deployed …
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WHEN we think of drones, we think of those unmanned aerial vehicles used by the military for spying and delivering bombs. There are also drones being used for agriculture (spraying crops) and delivery (Amazon is famously working on using drones to deliver packages). The movie and television industries also use …
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Ukraine Buys Advanced Turkish Strike Drones Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor By: Yuri Lapaiev The Jamestown Foundation On January 26, Ukrainian State Concern Ukroboronprom announced an agreement between the Turkish company Baykar Makina and Ukraine’s state-owned arms trader Ukrspecexport (part of Ukroboronprom) to procure 12 Bayraktar TB2 operational/tactical-level strike unmanned aerial …
Read More »New York police to use drone to patrol Times Square on New Y…
NEW YORK — It’s an Auld Lang Syne of the times: For the first time, a police drone will be keeping watch over the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s Times Square. The unmanned eye-in-the-sky is the latest wrinkle in the New York City Police Department’s ever-evolving plan to …
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