Sendai City and Nokia successfully conducted a test flight of a Nokia drone on a private LTE network provided by Nokia Digital Automation Cloud. They tested the potential use of drones during a tsunami or other disasters to help in prevention and mitigation efforts. Continue reading
Chilean Protesters Use Lasers to Take Down a Drone
This is the most cyberpunk thing I’ve seen for a while: Chilean protesters using lasers to take down a drone. pic.twitter.com/tLSgj7YSB6
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Russian Military Drone Crashes into Garden
A military-grade drone crash-landed a few dozen meters away from homes in a tiny town in central Russia. Footage and images of the grounded drone shows it planted in an apartment’s block’s shared garden on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading
Iris Automation and Kansas DOT Complete BVLOS Flight
The Kansas Department of Transportation’s (KDOT) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) has successfully completed the first beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone operation using only onboard detect-and-avoid systems. Continue reading
Camcopter S-100 Completes Integration on French LHD
France’s Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) procurement agency has qualified the integration of Schiebel’s S-100 Camcopter rotary-wing unmanned aerial system (UAS) on board the French Navy’s Mistral-class amphibious assault (LHD) ship Dixmude . Continue reading
French Army STAT Unit Tests SkyWall C-AUS System
An evaluation of OpenWorks Engineering, SkyWall net capture systems was recently conducted by the innovative STAT unit from the French Army, at a test range in the south of France. Soldiers were trained to operate both systems, SkyWall Patrol (previously known as SkyWall100) and SkyWall Auto, prior to a test that saw a total of 24 target engagements. Continue reading
ADASI Partners with Swissdrones for Surveying and S&R Operations
ADASI has signed a contract with SwissDrones, a high-tech company based in Switzerland, that specialises in the development and production of UAVs for superior endurance in critical unmanned aerial applications. Continue reading
Governor Cuomo Announces Completion of 50-Mile Drone Corridor
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the completion of the state supported 50-mile unmanned traffic management drone corridor, which runs from Central New York to the Mohawk Valley. The first-in-the-nation corridor is the most advanced drone testing corridor in the nation. Continue reading



