Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. Board of Directors, chaired by Harel Locker, approved the search committee’s recommendation to nominate Mr. Boaz Levy as IAI’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Continue reading
France Wants Electronic Warfare Payload for mUAS
France has kicked off a programme to develop an electronic warfare payload for a mini unmanned aerial vehicle. The French Ministry of Defense is looking for a payload, or payloads, that will be able to detect, locate, and identify radio communications transmitters, as well as potentially jam them. Continue reading
PAL-V Flying Car Achieves EU Roadworthy Certification
PAL-V, a Raamsdonksveer, Netherlands-based developer of what it hopes will be among the world’s first flying cars (if not the first), obtained approval from the European Union to drive its vehicle on European roads. Sporting license plate J-7 71-PT, PAL-V’s Liberty is now street legal. Continue reading
Ukraine Unveils First Domestic Combat Drone
Kyiv-based Luch Design Bureau last week unveiled its Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) project, the Sokil-300 (Falcon-300), a strike drone slated to be the first designed and produced exclusively in Ukraine. Continue reading
SkySensus Selected for RTM Service Trials in Canada
SkySensus, an R&D project that is funded and led by Peraton Canada for the research and development, and commercialization of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) in unmanned systems, announced that it was selected to fulfil Canada’s official Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Traffic Management (RTM) Service Trials. Continue reading
Jaguar Land Rover’s Future Mobility Campus Includes UAV Corridor
Jaguar Land Rover is partnering with global software, mobility and telecoms companies to create a smart city hub that will allow real-world testing of connected technology where self-driving vehicles share the streets with cars, pedestrians and cyclists. Continue reading
World’s First Commercial Night Drone Delivery
F-drones successfully completed the first commercial night drone delivery. The delivery was made in Singapore on 1 November 2020 to Berge Sarstein, owned by Berge Bulk. F- drones helped to send a 3D printed critical part weighing 3 kilograms over 5 kilometers within 7 minutes. Continue reading
University of New Mexico Gets Grant for Drone Swarms for Volcano Research
One can tell a lot from the composition of the gasses coming from active volcanoes about what is happening deep beneath. It is even possible to predict when an active volcano will erupt causing widespread damage, yet gathering this critical data can be extremely hazardous to the scientists studying the volcano. Continue reading