Recently proposed legislation would require the Defense Department to review its official framework for categorizing drones – and establish whether terms used reflect up-to-date commercial unmanned aircraft system technologies. Continue reading
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Turkey Tests World’s First Laser-Equipped Drone
The world’s first Turkish-made Eren laser-powered drone has successfully fired at distances of 500, 300 and 100 meters. Eren will be transferred to the Turkish Armed Forces inventory after completing all test phases. Continue reading
Airobotics and ShotSpotter Partner to Offer Integrated Gunshot Detection and Real-time Aerial Video
Airobotics, an Israeli manufacturer of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and aerial data systems, announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with the American company ShotSpotter to sell and deploy its gunshot detection technology in Israel. Continue reading
MARSS and Thales Collaborate to Protect Infrastructures Against UAS
MARSS has announced a collaboration with Thales for the delivery of system solutions to provide protection of critical infrastructures against multiple threats. Continue reading
Korean Air Inspects Aircraft with Drone Swarms
Korean Air, with its extensive experience in manned and unmanned aerial vehicle development, has developed a technology that can inspect aircraft using drone swarms. Continue reading
Building Future Air Taxis to See Through the Fog
The frame of an unmanned aerial vehicle is installed at the end of a 180-foot-long chamber filled with fog at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico
While the sun beat down on the New Mexico desert, inside, a dense fog hung in the air. In a special facility outside Albuquerque, a team of NASA researchers was working with the kind of fog that’s so thick you can’t see three feet in front of you. Continue reading
US Treasury Identifies Eight Chinese Tech Firms as Part of The Chinese Military-Industrial Complex
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on December 16th. identified eight Chinese technology firms pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13959, as amended by E.O. 14032. These eight entities actively support the biometric surveillance and tracking of ethnic and religious minorities in China, particularly the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang. Continue reading
USS Portland Tests High Energy Laser Weapon System in Gulf of Aden
Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) conducted a high-energy laser weapon system demonstration, Dec. 14, while sailing in the Gulf of Aden. Continue reading