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Senior United States United States District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced Wendell Doyle Goney (52, Mount Dora) to four years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Goney entered a guilty plea on October 5, 2023. Continue reading
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had to cut short her tour of a waterworks facility in southern Ukraine on February 25 when a Russian spy drone was sighte briefly following the minister’s armoured motorcade before turning around. As a result, the German Foreign Ministry decided to evacuate the area immediately for security reasons. Continue reading
Analyst Peter Arment of Robert W. Baird maintained a Buy rating on AeroVironment, with a price target of $152.00.
A new strategy backed by at least £4.5 billion ($5.7BN) of investment over the next decade will accelerate access to uncrewed systems for the UK Armed Forces, rapidly equipping them with innovative technology across air, sea, and land. Continue reading
Skyports Drone Services , a global supplier of drone logistics, surveys, and monitoring services, has announced a strategic partnership with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) to explore the feasibility of middle-mile drone logistics in the New York and New Jersey region. Continue reading
Endeavour Energy will replace noisy helicopters with stealthy drones for its annual safety checks of over 13,000 kilometres of power lines in bushfire-prone areas. Continue reading
The European Union (EU), in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MESU), contributed to introducing the new profession of ‘Operator of Remotely Controlled Devices’. The training – based at specialised vocational schools – covers the management, repair and maintenance of various types of civilian drones. Continue reading
FPV kamikaze drones are a serious threat to Russian armour. A small racing quadcopter armed with an RPGRPG -0.9% warhead can destroy a main battle tank with one well-aimed hit, and lesser-armoured vehicles are even more vulnerable. Ukraine has hundreds of thousands of drones, and the only protection is jammers…which in the case of Russian soldiers, means betting your life on a highly corrupt procurement system, as one recent example shows. Continue reading