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Chris Hawker, the creator of the Powersquid, and some of his buddies at Trident Design have created a new flying drone, the Carbon Flyer. The Flyer is an ultralight airplane that flies under its own power and controlled via Bluetooth. A tiny camera streams the flight to your phone. Continue reading
After soaring the skies of Afghanistan in missions totalling more than three years, Australia’s Heron surveillance drones and their operators are heading home.The Heron unarmed remotely piloted aircraft completed more than 27,000 mission hours since starting operations in August 2009.
Four UAV Solutions Phoenix 30 vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicles have been delivered to the Bulgarian national military forces under a foreign military sale agreement with the US government. Continue reading
Uzbekistan has banned the import, sale and use of pilotless drone aircraft, citing air safety and security concerns. Media reports in the tightly controlled Central Asian nation say that Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev signed an order on December 1 and that the ban comes into force on January 1, 2015. Continue reading
Russia has reportedly established a dedicated unmanned air vehicle unit in the eastern region of Chukotka, believed to stem from a $9.2 billion investment in the technology pledged by the nation’s defence ministry in May. Continue reading
A new stratospheric unmanned air vehicle with the same high-tech capabilities found in US military-operated unmanned systems – but with the price tag of a car – is being pitched to the civil UAV market.
A bird fitted with a bomb vest, surveillance camera and GPS tracker was shot dead as it walked along a highway in Afghanistan this weekend — and authorities think the Taliban were behind the suicide mission. Continue reading
Resource Group’s Unmanned Aviation Flying Services team has been awarded a place on the national framework agreement by Network Rail for a three year contract to provide aerial infrastructure inspections and surveys. The use of remotely piloted unmanned aviation systems should help to increase inspection efficiencies and reduce the risks associated with rail engineers working at height and in busy rail environments. Continue reading