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HHLA Sky’s Automated First Responder Drone X4 has been awarded the German Design Award 2023 in the category “Excellent Product Design”. This quadcopter drone was specially designed with the needs of first responders and security professionals in mind. Continue reading
Freedom of Information Act requests by the Washington Examiner have returned four reports of unidentified airborne vehicle intrusions at sensitive U.S. government nuclear laboratories between March 2018 and April 2021. In each case, security officers failed to identify the operator of these apparent vehicles or their intent. Continue reading
The Bell X-2 (nicknamed “Starbuster”) was an X-plane research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2–3 range. The X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft developed jointly in 1945 by Bell Aircraft Corporation, the United States Air Force and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to explore aerodynamic problems of supersonic flight and to expand the speed and altitude regimes obtained with the earlier X-1 series of research aircraft. Continue reading
The Indian Navy has been operating General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) manufactured MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) under lease for over two years. Recently, Senior Staff from the U.S. Embassy of India visited the operating location. Continue reading
A. P. Møller Maersk is turning to flying drones from Verity to manage inventory counts in its warehouse network. After a six-month trial run at four Maersk North America sites, the plan now is to install drones in all the containership giant’s warehouses that have pallet storage. Continue reading
Aerial robots can autonomously collect temporal and spatial high-resolution environmental data. This data can then be utilized to develop mathematical ecology models to understand the impact of climate change on our habitat. Continue reading
Emirates Defense Technology (EDT) – a UAE-based integrator for comprehensive defense solutions, and Steadicopter – a supplier of Rotary Unmanned Aerial Systems (RUAS) , are joining forces regarding the supply of Steadicopter’s advanced rotary tactical unmanned aerial systems. Continue reading
The Spanish Navy has closed with Marine Instruments, a Spanish company developing and manufacturing marine technology, the purchase of three M5D-Airfox UAV systems. This acquisition, valued at 1 million euros, represents the culmination of the national and international exercises that the maritime UAV system has been carrying out with the Navy since 2021 and which, phase by phase, it is successfully completing. Continue reading