East Liberty-based Identified Technologies has created an automated drone and docking system for gathering data at industrial sites, especially shale gas operations. Continue reading
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Northrop Grumman to Start Production on Korean Global Hawks
Northrop Grumman Corporation will begin production of four RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for the Republic of Korea’s Air Force. The systems will provide valuable wide-area intelligence gathering capabilities to military commanders so they can make more informed decisions.
Police Question BBC re Drone in Davos No-Fly Zone
Three BBC journalists have been questioned by Swiss police for breaching high-level security protocols by using a drone at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month.
UAVs Help Canadian Arctic Icebreaker
Even for the world’s biggest icebreaker, the best way through Arctic ice is to go around it. There’s an art to navigating an obstacle course of ice floes thick enough to smash a hole in a steel hull. Continue reading
BAE Systems to Develop ASW UAS
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) experts at BAE Systems are developing an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) sensor payload able to look for submerged enemy submarines by detecting small variations in the Earth’s magnetic field. Continue reading
China Supplies UAS for Gas to Uzbekistan
China has supplied at least one UAV, the Pterodactyl (Yilong-1), which was developed by China’s Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group, to Uzbekistan.
French Theme Park Introduces HexaCopters
Puy du Fou has become the first theme park to introduce an ‘intelligent’ drone fleet to enhance its visitors’ experience. Continue reading
Chinese UAV Crashes in Nigeria
The wreckage of an armed drone turned up in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday near the epicenter of the West African country’s violent Islamist insurgency. A Borno State publication KSM News, published on Facebook that an unmanned drone suspected to be used in the counter-insurgency operation in the Northeast has crashed at Dumge village of Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State. Dumge is 30km northeast of Maiduguri.