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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has released for public review and comment a working draft of the Standardization Roadmap for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Version 2.0) being developed by the Institute’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Standardization Collaborative (UASSC). Continue reading
WISeKey International Holding Ltd., a global cybersecurity and IoT company, announced that it has been selected by a major drone manufacturer to bring its decades of expertise in digital security into the Company’s newly designed drones. Continue reading
UAE Wing Loong drone used by Haftar’s forces shot down near Misurata
Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) announced on Wednesday that it had downed a United Arab Emirates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the west of the country. Continue reading
The National Institute of Standards and Safety Public Safety Communications Research has launched the First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge with prize offerings totalling $552,000. UAS Challenge opened on April 1 for proposal submissions through the website. Continue reading
Senior Airman Mathieu Cyrus, F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team avionics specialist, received a familiarization ride in an F-16 Viper fighter aircraft. Continue reading
The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) has stood-up an experimental unit dedicated to developing an operational ‘swarming drones’ capability, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) told Jane’s . Continue reading
The latest iteration of Iran’s Ababil looks much different than its predecessor generations. Though it still uses a pusher configuration, the “Ababil 3” is strikingly similar to South Africa’s Denel Seeker — which it may, in fact, be, either a reverse-engineered copy or simply straight-up rebadged. Continue reading
ModalAI has released VOXL Flight, the first open-development platform for autonomous drone navigation that fuses a companion computer with a PX4 flight controller on one printed circuit board (PCB). Continue reading