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Russian troops in Tajikistan have received surveillance UAS designed for “terrain reconnaissance and detection of radioactivity,” the Russian military has announced. “The UAS have substantially raised the military capability of the units carrying out the surveillance mission during day and night,” the report said. Continue reading
Denel’s Seeker 400 unmanned aircraft system successfully completed its first round of flight tests after a three year development process. Continue reading
With the war in Afghanistan winding down and the pressure against federal spending increasing, the Pentagon is reconfiguring itself for leaner peacetime operations and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are among the programmes being affected. Continue reading
Gold Hill Resources, Inc., a mining and subsurface detection technology company, announced that it has filed seven new patents over the course of last year including a patent application regarding Advanced Geophysical Receiving (AGR) technology embedded in a UAS based detection system. The AGR technology will allow the UAS to send back the location of precious metals to the operator. Continue reading
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera) in New Zealand is using UAS to film earthquake-damaged properties as demolition work progresses on Christchurch’s Port Hills, as one of several means for assessing properties that are too dangerous or difficult for workers to enter. Continue reading
In China’s Hebei province, environmental authorities have dispatched unmanned aircraft to look for the sources of air pollution, and monitor the daily emission of factories. They flew to industrial zones in the cities of Tangshan and Xingtai. Continue reading
The Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded Systems (ARES) is a vertical takeoff and lift (VTOL) flight module that could adapt to multiple missions with interchangeable payloads, offering new capabilities and enabling new operational concepts. Continue reading