PhotoFlight Aerial Media announced that it has acquired 500 Feet Drones, LLC and Stribog Media LLC, operating as Notadrone. Continue reading
$3 M Patriot Missile Shot Down a $200 Drone
A Patriot missile – usually priced at about $3m (£2.5m) – was used to shoot down a small quadcopter drone, according to a US general. The strike was made by a US ally, General David Perkins told a military symposium.
DARPA Awards Phase 2 Gremlins Program Contracts
DARPA recently completed Phase 1 of its Gremlins program, which envisions volleys of low-cost, reusable unmanned aerial systems (UASs)—or “gremlins”—that could be launched and later retrieved in mid-air. Taking the program to its next stage, the Agency has now awarded Phase 2 contracts to two teams, one led by Dynetics, Inc. (Huntsville, Ala.) and the other by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (San Diego, Calif.). Continue reading
Singapore Air Force Heron 1 Achieves Full Operational Capacity Status
The Singapore Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen officiated at a ceremony to inaugurate the Heron 1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) into the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s (RSAF’s) 119 Squadron (SQN) at Murai Camp on March 15th, marking a significant milestone in the development of the 3rd Generation Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF’s) intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. Continue reading
US Army Learns Anti-Drone Lessons from Mosul
The U.S. military has been studying the drone threat from the Islamic State group in Iraq for some time now and the Army’s training branch is no exception, taking lessons learned and applying them to major training rotations.
V-TOL and RelmaTech Announce Drone Day/Night BVLOS Flights
V-TOL Aerospace has extended its partnership with UK-based RelmaTech to claim another world first in UAS operations, successfully conducting day and night beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights continuously monitored by an operational UAS Traffic Management (UTM) system. Continue reading
Fokker D.VII from World War 1
The Vintage Aviator Ltd’s Fokker D.VII replica, originally built for the motion picture ‘The Blue Max’ is shown here during a display at Oamaka Aerodrome (Blenheim, New Zealand) shortly after its arrival in New Zealand. Continue reading
China’s Rainbow Solar UAV to Make Maiden Flight
China’s aerospace engineers boast the “Caihong” is the world’s largest solar-powered drone, dwarfing NASA’s Pathfinder series that never made it into mass production. The prospect of the drone leading in disaster monitoring is in the horizon. Continue reading