Turkey’s national post and telegraph corporation is preparing to begin deliveries by unmanned aerial vehicles, dubbed as drones, within next year. Continue reading
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Autonomous Drone for Industry from Israel’s Percepto
Percepto, developers of on-site autonomous drone systems, has announced the launch of its Sparrow I, an autonomous drone specifically designed for industrial environments. The Sparrow I can conduct multiple missions and can operate around the clock, reducing both security and operational costs, including the need for on-site pilots and operators. Continue reading
Left Tail Break Caused 2015 Predator Crash
A mechanical failure of the left tail clamp on an MQ-1B Predator caused the remotely piloted aircraft to crash during a mission in an undisclosed area in the Middle East, the US Air Force announced.
NOAA, Tennessee University Test Electric UAV with Autopilot
With a legacy of delivering reliable, robust and highly accurate small Unmanned Aircraft Systems , NOAA Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division (ATDD) of the Air Resources Laboratory has selected Black Swift Technologies (BST), a specialized engineering firm based in Boulder, CO, to integrate their SwiftCore Flight Management System with a UAV Factory Penguin BE UAV platform in support of a joint research project with the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI). Continue reading
GENIUS NY Announces Sixteen Semi-Finalists
GENIUS NY, a business accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, announced sixteen teams are semi-finalists in the competition’s second round. The companies, which are developing innovations in the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) industry, were selected from a highly-competitive pool of more than 250 submissions to compete for $3 million in investments.
DroneSentinel Demonstration
DroneShield Ltd, an Australian public company with substantial U.S. operations, has released a video of its DroneSentinel / DroneSentry anti-drone systems in operation. Continue reading
DJI Security Seriously Discredited
Two documents which have come to light recently throw severe doubts on both DJI’s ability and willingness to install security measures in its products. In the first, Kevin Finisterre, a researcher, found that DJI left the private key for its dot-com’s HTTPS certificate exposed on GitHub for up to four years. In the second, a White Paper by Department 13 entitled ‘Anatomy of DJI Drone Identification Implementation’, it emerges that some of DJI’s approaches have clear security issues with no apparent remediation. Continue reading
Saudi Arabia to Buy Six Anka UAVs
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is planning to acquire six medium-altitude, long-endurance drones developed by Turkish Aerospace Industry (TAI) and two ground controls stations, an official has disclosed.