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Korea Aerospace Industries announced on January 19th that it had signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Northrop Grumman for technical cooperation in the business of vertical take-off and landing drones at its headquarters in Sacheon on the 18th. Continue reading
Earlier this month, Amazon confirmed plans to lay off around 18,000 workers. The move has hit certain divisions hard, including Comixology and Prime Air. Continue reading
IAI has unveiled its POINT BLANK electro-optically guided missile, that can be carried in a soldier’s backpack. The system answers the battlefield requirement to provide tactical units ranging in size from small tactical teams to battalion level, with an independent and organic capability to increase their lethality. Continue reading
The U.S. has now collected 510 reports of Unidentified Flying Objects, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as they are called in the report just issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, many of which are flying in sensitive military airspace. Continue reading
Turkey is set to deliver an undisclosed number of armed drones to Kuwait in a contract worth $370 million, Turkish defence firm Baykar said on Wednesday. Continue reading
Regulus Cyber – an Israeli software-based GPS/ GNSS security solutions provider – is launching the first fully-operational, small-form-factor counter-UAS system using unique GNSS manipulation technology to defeat all UAS threats, including swarms, multi-direction attacks, dark drones, manually-piloted drones and 4G/5G drones. Continue reading
A recently released video by Jaeson Jones, a reporter and retired Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) captain, revealed the moment a group of Los Chapitos hitmen fired at a drone upon noticing it they were being watched. Continue reading
The Blohm & Voss BV 138 Seedrache (Sea Dragon), but nicknamed Der Fliegende Holzschuh (‘flying clog’, from the side-view shape of its fuselage, as well as a play on the title of the Wagner opera ‘Der Fliegende Hollander’ or ‘The Flying Dutchman’) was a World War II German trimotor flying boat that served as the Luftwaffe’s main seaborne long-range maritime patrol and naval reconnaissance aircraft. Continue reading