The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) just released a report that finds nearly 90 percent of the waivers granted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under Part 107 went to small businesses. Continue reading
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India Flight Tests Lakshya-II Target Drone
Indian Air Force (IAF) has tested the advanced version of Pilot-less Target Aircraft (PTA), Lakshya-II from the Integrated Test Range on Wednesday last week. The unmanned aerial vehicle was flight-tested off Odisha coast from the launching complex-III of the test range at 4.25 pm and demonstrated its full capability.
Counter-Drone is the New Counter-IED
The current effort to thwart the “ingenious” application of unmanned aerial systems being used by the Islamic State group, which include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as well as lethal payload delivery, is reminiscent of the counter-improvised explosive device effort undertaken by the Defense Department, according to one top intelligence official. Continue reading
Canada Develops Vision Based Drone Navigation System
Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has entered into a Sponsored Research and Collaboration Agreement with the University of Toronto and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Development granting program to jointly develop a vision based navigation solution for UAV’s (drones) to safely navigate without the reliance of GPS technology. Continue reading
Turkey’s Anti-Drone Jammer System Targets Asia-Pacific
Turkish defence company Aselsan has unveiled a man-portable ‘anti-drone jammer’ system at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) 2017 exhibition, and is positioning the product for the export market for the first time, a company official told Jane’s. Continue reading
Russia Developing New UAV Based on IAI Searcher
Russia is to develop a new unmanned air vehicle based on the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Searcher 2 that was built under licence by a local company. Continue reading
NASA Includes Swedish UAV in BVLOS Testing
Swedish manufacturer SmartPlanes has announced that the SmartPlanes Freya UAV is included in the NASA UAS Traffic Management (UTM) R&D Technical Capability Level 3 (TCL 3) project, at the FAA-designated Nevada UAS test site. SmartPlanes is represented by its US distributor Carbon Autonomous. Continue reading
Kirintec Introduces Anti-UAS Solutions
Kirintec has introduced Sky Net Longbow and Recurve, its ‘proven solutions to defeat UAS, UAV and drone aircraft’. Said to produce outstanding results, the company says its products are outperforming its rivals in all formal tests to date. Continue reading