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A police bomb disposal robot carries away a drone-shaped device from the Gaza Strip, borne by dozens of helium balloons, which landed in a carrot field in southern Israel on January 6 ,2019.
On Sunday morning, a bomb was flown into Israel using a large cluster of balloons and a drone-like glider device, landing in a carrot field in the Sdot Negev region of southern Israel shortly before noon. Continue reading
Aeronautics is in talks to sell its 50% stake in Controp Precision Technologies, a maker of electro-Optical and precision motion control systems for defense and homeland security applications, to the U.S. private equity giant KKR at a $150 million valuation, TheMarker has learned. Continue reading
Shen Zhou Ming Da High Technology Co Ltd (SZMID), a Beijing-based company specialising in radio frequency (RF) detection and jamming technology for counter unmanned aerial vehicle (C-UAV) applications, is eyeing export opportunities for its indigenously developed DZ-02 Pro Portable Jammer Gun. Continue reading
The U.S. armed forces face not only asymmetric threats — as characterized by warfare fought in Afghanistan and Iraq — but those from near-peer competitors such as Russia and China, said Paul Lemmo, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s integrated warfare systems and sensors division. Continue reading
The US Coast Guard (USCG) has again selected Insitu and its ScanEagle for the Small Unmanned Aerial System (SUAS) for National Security Cutter (NSC) programme, this time as part of corrective action from its original contract award. Continue reading
Drone delivery is the new frontier of customer convenience in Australia – but not everybody is impressed. A trial conducted by Google spin-off company Wing is taking place in Canberra, and some neighbours of the suburb of Bonython are not happy. Continue reading
Unifly, a Belgium-based drone traffic management provider, has raised a total of 14,6 mio Euro ( 16,8 mio US$ ) in a B-round, bringing the total invested capital so far to 21 mio Euro ( 26,5 mio US$ ). Continue reading
DRONEKILLER, a handheld Software Defined Radio created by IXI EW that can be used anywhere in the counter UAS kill-chain, participated in a NATO non-lethal technology exercise of counter-UAS at the Marine Corps Base Quantico. Over ten countries and United States Marine officials including Commandant Neller attended NNTEX-18C. Continue reading