DJI recently an update that added some new safety features, including GPS geofencing that stops the drone flying about near sensitive places: like the White House. However, it has paused the roll-out of the update after a few reports that “unanticipated flight behaviour after updating” to Phantom firmware v3.10.
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NATO’s MQ-9 Reaper Users Group Meets
NATO’s new MQ-9 Reaper Users Group met for the first time in Paris last week to share cooperative ISR capabilities, French air force officials announced.
No Predators for Jordan
The Obama administration has denied a request from a leading U.S. defence contractor for a license to market its unarmed Predator to Jordan, whose requests for U.S.-made weapons are viewed as more urgent due its participation in the fight against the Islamic State.
Czech Troops to Use ScanEagle
The United States will donate the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system to the Czech military to help protect the U.S. Bagram base in Afghanistan within the Foreign Military Funding programme, daily Lidové noviny (LN) writes.
Lockheed P-38 Lightning “Fork-Tailed Devil”
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II American fighter aircraft built by Lockheed. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Continue reading
Aviation Reconnaissance Course Teams UAS Operators with Pilots
A new course at Fort Rucker, Alabama, will pair up Air Cavalry leaders with the operators of unmanned aerial systems.
France Seeks Drone Interception System
A French national security and defence agency under the prime minister closed the books on a call for bids to fund a drone interception system. It hopes to have at least some drone defences operational in the next 18 months.
Hobby UAS as Terror Weapons
If you want to understand why the government freaked out when a $400 remote-controlled quadcopter landed on the White House grounds last week, you need to look four miles away, to a small briefing room in Arlington, Virginia. Continue reading