Tunisia has ordered Anka-S unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) in the company’s first export order for the type. Continue reading
First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge
In an effort to help equip first responders with the necessary technology to aid them during various operations, the First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge is designed to crowd-source as many inventive drone designs as possible for first responders. Continue reading
Schiebel Enhances Production with State-Of-The-Art Metal 3D Printer
Schiebel further enhances its production capabilities by investing in a state-of-the-art EOS M 400-4 metal 3D printer for additive manufacturing. Continue reading
US Africa Command MQ-1 Crash in Niger
The U.S. military says it lost an MQ-1 drone near Agadez, Niger, according to U.S. Africa Command. Continue reading
US Marines Change MUX Ship-Based Drone Project
The US Marines have ditched their plan to field a very large drone on amphibious ships, instead breaking the four-year-old MUX program into a family of systems that will include a very large land-based unmanned aerial vehicle and a medium-sized one for shipboard operations. Continue reading
Russian Drone Accident in Arctic Circle Wounds Six
An out-of-control Russian military drone armed with “simulated explosives” crashed in Russia wounding six servicemen, reports say. Three of the Northern Fleet marines were said to be in“grave” conditions in hospital in the closed naval town of Severomorsk. Continue reading
Airbus UTM – ‘Technical Details of Fairness in UTM’
Airbus UTM shares the insights of its second, more technical paper, ‘Fairness in Decentralized Strategic Deconfliction in UTM’. The paper, published at the AIAA SciTech Forum, simulates the fairness implications of a commonly proposed approach to strategic deconfliction. Continue reading
What Happened to Giant Flying Boats? Saunders-Roe Princess Story
The rapid development of aircraft in the 1920’s and 1930’s far outpaced the development of aviation infrastructure to support them. Runways, even by the late 1930’s, were rare and often little more than an open grass field, useful only for the smallest and lightest of airplanes. Continue reading