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Amazon Pharmacy customers have a new way to get the medications they need quickly and affordably. Customers in College Station, Texas can now get their prescription medications dropped outside their door via Amazon’s drone delivery service within 60 minutes of placing their order—at no additional cost. Continue reading
Russian state media on Sunday visited the Tambov bakery, situated 400 kilometers south of Moscow, where it is claimed that alongside the bread it bakes its staff are assembling First Person Viewed (FPV) drones for the military. Continue reading
Six projects have been chosen for trials under a UK Civil Aviation Authority scheme that will help make beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone flights an everyday reality. Among those included are schemes that involve medical drone deliveries, energy infrastructure, and ‘sky highways’. Continue reading
Cranfield Airport has been selected by the Civil Aviation Authority to participate in a Temporary Reserved Area (TRA) Regulatory Sandbox accommodating the operation of unmanned and manned aircraft in unsegregated airspace. Continue reading
The Pentagon said the new institution – housed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma – will train about 1,000 troops a year to plan, install, and operate a variety of anti-drone defenses. The U.S. military is opening an opening a “university” to train troops to defend against a rapidly-evolving weapon that is changing the nature of war — small drones. Continue reading
Baykar is continuing its development efforts on the Bayraktar TB3 drone, which can take off and land on ships with short runways. In this context, the company successfully completed the first roll test of the Bayraktar TB3, that features a foldable wing structure. Continue reading
Researchers, from Delft University in the Netherlands have devised the autonomous drone that uses its propellers 0.25 per cent of the time, compared to the 38 per cent required for a regular flight. Continue reading
EHang Holdings Limited announced that the EH216-S, its self-developed passenger-carrying unmanned aerial vehicle system, has obtained the type certificate (“TC”) officially issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (“CAAC”). Continue reading