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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) published guidelines to establish the noise levels of drones below 600 kg, the first proposal world-wide for this, applicable to a wide variety of drone designs including multicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and powered-lift aircraft. Continue reading
A 50 year-old Russian-Israeli citizen was arrested at the Storskog border crossing between Norway and Russia on Thursday after police found two drones and several data storage units in his car during a routine check. Continue reading
Global military mobility solutions provider AM General unveiled the HUMVEE Saber Blade Edition concept – a collaboration with leading defense companies to showcase the platform’s flexibility to easily integrate various advanced weapons systems – at the recent Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) Continue reading
An Israeli military drone crashed in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, the Israel Defense Forces said. An armed Palestinian group calling itself “Lion’s Den” said it had captured the quadcopter that crashed in the Old City of Nablus, publishing images of it taken apart. Continue reading
Sky Power International has gained an exclusive distribution partner for the Indian market, Zerosum Technologies Pvt Ltd. The new distributor offers products and systems for the development and operation of UAVs and works with numerous drone manufacturers in the national market. Continue reading
Over 80,000 drone IDs were exposed in a data leak after a database containing information from dozens of airspace monitoring devices manufactured by the Chinese-owned DJI was left accessible to the public. Continue reading
Ten years ago, on 14 October 2012, more than eight million people tuned in online to watch the Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner jump from the edge of space and set three FAI world records. Continue reading
As it unveiled a new modular drone concept design last month, General Atomics also hinted at a new propulsion technology concept that a pair of top company executives believe has “game changing” potential. Continue reading