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Iran recently mounted the Div-e-Sepid competition, in which competitors from up to 65 teams square off by racing their homemade unmanned aircraft around Mount Damavand, Iran’s highest mountain peak.
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently selected Aurora Flight Sciences for the Manufacturing Technologies for Remotely Piloted Vehicles (MaTeR) programme. Continue reading
Inexpensive and easy to use MAVs, developed by Severin Leven and Swiss-based Sensefly, are shown here to be able to flock in formations up to ten aircraft. Continue reading
Folks at two beaches in Wilmington, North Carolina, had quite a surprise one morning. They found what appear to be military target gliders on the beach. Continue reading
U-Pilot - Photo: Airelectronics
Airelectronics is a new Spanish start-up created by a team of experienced aeronautical engineers, based in Madrid, which provides an integrated system for UAS flight. Continue reading
This television report from last summer visits the Karrar (“Assailant”) factory and shows the high-speed unmanned aircraft in flight. Continue reading
The United States has agreed “in principle” to deploy Predators on Turkish soil, the Turkish prime minister said last Friday. Continue reading
Cobham has introduced a new high definition (HD), dual stream video transmitter, called M2TE (Messenger 2 Transmitter Enhanced), for use on unmanned aircraft. Continue reading