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The Curtiss A-12 Shrike was the United States Army Air Corps’ second monoplane ground-attack aircraft, and its main attack aircraft through most of the 1930s. It was based on the A-8, but had a radial engine instead of the A-8’s inline, water-cooled engine, as well as other changes. Continue reading
Quantum-Systems GmbH, an aerial intelligence company that provides multi-sensor data collection drones to government agencies and commercial customers, announced that it will deliver 105 additional long-endurance reconnaissance drones type Vector in military support of Ukraine’s armed forces, funded by the German Government. Continue reading
Ford Motor Company has filed a patent for drone flights over public roadways, Ford Authority has learned. The patent was filed on June 9th, 2021, published on December 15th, 2022, and assigned serial number 0398932. Continue reading
Israeli authorities indicted seven men in connection to a plot to use explosive drones to try and assassinate an unknown individual in Jaffa as part of a gang-related dispute. Continue reading
Percepto, an autonomous inspection and monitoring solution provider, has announced that Transport Canada has approved Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) to operate Percepto’s drone-in-a-box solution Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) at McConnell Lake Control Dam without a visual observer on site, a first in Canada. Continue reading
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) have updated DOD’s cleared list of small unmanned aircraft systems under the second iteration of the Blue sUAS project with the addition of drones from Skydio and Flightwave, bringing the number of vendors offering compliant drones to 10. Continue reading
Lockheed Martin achieved first light from the Directed Energy Interceptor for Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense System (DEIMOS) system, which verifies that the laser’s optical performance parameters align with the system design parameters. Continue reading