The Israeli defence forces (IDF) have drawn up the main design features of a “personal” unmanned air vehicle that will be carried by a large number of infantry soldiers in any formation of a battalion-level unit. Continue reading
OSU Gets $6M Grant for Weather Research UAVs
The National Science Foundation has awarded Oklahoma State University and three partner universities $6 million to collaboratively develop an integrated unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to improve weather forecasting through the study of atmospheric physics. The four-year grant will support the collaboration led by OSU and including the universities of Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kentucky. Continue reading
ERA Calls for More European UAV Regulation
UK-headquartered trade body the European Regions Airlines Association (ERA) claims that air passengers are being put at risk by the growing use of unmanned air vehicles, and has called for more regulation and control over their use. Continue reading
Drone Finds Hackable Devices
Security researchers have created a flying drone capable of sniffing out devices connecting to the internet. Researchers at security firm Praetorian created the drone using a custom-made tracking tool.
NASA Developing Space Exploration Drones
NASA engineers are developing a Martian quadcopter designed to fly in the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere and gather samples from sites inaccessible to rovers. Continue reading
Warning Area in Arctic airspace to Aid Research
A 700-mile-long airspace that stretches north from Oliktok Point — the northernmost point of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay — to about 400 miles short of the North Pole has been put under the stewardship of Sandia National Laboratories by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Continue reading
USAF Science Panel Recommends MQ-9 and RQ-4 Improvement Plan
A panel of military scientists is briefing senior US Air Force leaders on ways to make the defenceless General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper and Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk more useful in a war against a sophisticated enemy that has the ability to hunt and kill aircraft. Continue reading
Sense and Avoid System for Recreational UAVs
Panoptes Systems has introduced a sense and avoid capability for recreational unmanned air vehicles that offers protection over the intellectual property of hobbyist users. Continue reading