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March 17, 2023

Northrop Grumman Gets $57M US Navy MQ-4C Triton Support Contract for Australia

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is awarded a $57,403,706 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00017) to a previously awarded contract (N0001921C0060). This modification exercises options to provide continued sustainment, engineering, logistics, and test support for MQ-4C Triton air vehicles, mission control and operator training systems; continued field service representative’s technical support

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March 17, 2023

Wingcopter and ZAL to Develop Hydrogen Power for Delivery Drones

Wingcopter, the German developer and operator of delivery drones, and Hamburg-based ZAL Center of Applied Aeronautical Research GmbH have announced a development partnership. Together, they intend to explore the potential of green hydrogen to power Wingcopter’s drones, which are already purely electric, and develop a sustainable, hydrogen-based propulsion system. The

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March 17, 2023

Pentagon Releases Video of Russian Fighter Crashing Into US MQ-9

The Pentagon released video of a March 14 incident involving a Russian Su-27 fighter and a U.S. Air Force MQ-9, which resulted in the American plane crashing into the Black Sea. The MQ-9 was conducting a surveillance mission when two Su-27 Flankers intercepted it. The Su-27s harassed the U.S. drone

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March 17, 2023

How to Fly DJI Avata? (Manual Mode)

This article will take you through the entire process from a total Avata beginner to a Manual pro pilot.

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March 17, 2023

DJI Mini 3 / Mini 3 Pro – Understanding and Using the Map and Radar (Video)

This article and the included YouTube video, will act as a tutorial discussing the various aspects of the map and radar and should help new Mini 3 owners understand and use both tools in the DJI Fly app.

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March 17, 2023

Hydrogen power for delivery drones: Wingcopter and ZAL GmbH start joint development

Weiterstadt/Hamburg, Germany — Wingcopter, the German developer and operator of delivery drones, and Hamburg-based ZAL Center of Applied Aeronautical Research GmbH have announced a development partnership. Together, they […]

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March 17, 2023

UAVOS Used Borey Fixed-Wing Drone for Soil Moisture Mapping

UAVOS, a developer and manufacturer of security and commercial solutions based on advanced Unmanned Systems, has recently completed a drone-based inspection in the agriculture sector […]

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March 17, 2023

Airbus and Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation develop eVTOL capability

Airbus Helicopters has partnered with the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation to develop CityAirbus NextGen’s future missions for medical services in Norway. To this end, the […]

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March 16, 2023

Airspeeder | The Electric Flying Car Racing Series | Premiering on Fox Sports

Airspeeder has announced the premiere of its highlights show, “Airspeeder: Above The Asphalt,” on Fox Sports Australia and Kayo Sports this week. This is a significant milestone for everyone at Airspeeder and Alauda Aeronautics, and offers the possibility of experiencing the excitement of the first-ever eVTOL circuit race that took

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March 16, 2023

Inmarsat & Heron AirBridge Partner for UAV Integration in Singapore

Inmarsat has welcomed Singapore-based Heron AirBridge, a specialist in Uncrewed Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) in the Asia Pacific region, as the latest company to join its Velaris Partner Network, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed at Drones Asia. Working alongside regional regulators, the two companies will enable the

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March 16, 2023

Propeller Advance Paves Way for Quiet, Efficient Electric Aviation

Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is battling a dilemma: the more energy-efficient an electric aircraft is, the noisier it gets. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a propeller design optimisation method that

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March 16, 2023

Red Cat Holdings Invests in Firestorm Modular UAS Company

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. a military technology company integrating robotic hardware and software to protect and support the warfighter, has made a materially significant financial investment in Firestorm, an American company developing the first completely Modular Unmanned Aerial System (MUAS) that is 3D printed and payload agnostic. Firestorm is

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March 16, 2023

Animal Dynamics’ Stork Parafoil UAV Selected for Royal Navy’s UAS Heavy Lift Challenge -Phase 2

Animal Dynamics – a UK technology company specialising in autonomous heavy-lift uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) – has been selected to participate in the next phase of the Royal Navy’s Uncrewed Aerial Systems Heavy Lift Challenge (UASHLC) with its Stork STM parafoil UAV. The Stork STM is an autonomous aerial logistics

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March 16, 2023

How to Land the DJI Avata (With a Motion Controller)

In this article, I’ll take you by the hand in the DJI Avata landing process.

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March 16, 2023

Inmarsat & Heron AirBridge to spearhead UAV integration in Singapore

Inmarsat has welcomed Singapore-based Heron AirBridge, a specialist in Uncrewed Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) in the Asia Pacific region, as the latest company to join […]

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March 16, 2023

Silvus Technologies Unveils Spectrum Dominance

Silvus Technologies, Inc. (“Silvus”), a global leader of advanced wireless networking communications systems, today announced Spectrum Dominance, an expansive suite of Low Probability of Intercept/Low […]

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March 16, 2023

Skyports Drone Services completes successful drone delivery proof of concept in collaboration with Japan’s Kaga City Council

Skyports Drone Services has successfully completed a drone delivery proof of concept (PoC) in partnership with Kaga City and Kanematsu Corporation. Kanematsu Corporation has partnered […]

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March 16, 2023

Six drone testing areas established in Finland – research and development made easier

While the use of drones continues to expand to new societal areas, cooperation between organisations and new test areas have been required to test new […]

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March 16, 2023

Zipline Unveils New Autonomous System Capable of Quiet, Fast and Precise Home Delivery

Zipline today unveiled its new platform that provides quiet, fast and precise autonomous delivery directly to homes in cities and suburbs. The company’s next-generation home delivery […]

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March 15, 2023

Iran’s Shahed-191 UAV Launched from a Toyota Tundra

On March 13, a new set of images showing Iran’s Shahed-191 strike drone with a new mobile launch system emerged on social media. The images, also shared by the official Twitter account of the EurAsian Times, display a Shahed-191 strike drone mounted on what appears to be a Toyota Tundra

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March 15, 2023

‘Traffic Cop’ Algorithm Helps a Drone Swarm Stay on Task

How fresh are your data? For drones searching a disaster zone or robots inspecting a building, working with the freshest data is key to locating a survivor or reporting a potential hazard. But when multiple robots simultaneously relay time-sensitive information over a wireless network, a traffic jam of data can

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March 15, 2023

BMT Gets Patent for ‘SPARROW’, an Autonomous ‘Air-Ground Payload Transfer Device’

BMT, an international design, engineering, science, and risk management consultancy, has announced that it has been granted a patent by the U.K. Intellectual Property Office for a novel concept called ‘SPARROW’, an autonomous ‘air-ground payload transfer device’ with truly disruptive capabilities for drone delivery applications. Phil Metcalfe, Regional Business Director

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March 15, 2023

Taiwan Shows Off Homegrown Drones for ‘Asymmetric Warfare’

Taiwan showcased new models of its domestically produced military drones on Tuesday, saying they are key to its “asymmetric warfare” capacity to make its forces more agile if they have to face a far larger Chinese military. China, which has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under

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March 15, 2023

Russian Su-27 Jets Down MQ-9 Over Black Sea

A U.S military MQ-9 surveillance drone crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets, in the first such incident since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over a year ago. The Pentagon said that one of the Russian Su-27 jets struck the propeller of the drone,

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March 15, 2023

First, in the Nation – Pearland PD expands DFR operations to include BVLOS without Visual Observers

Pearland Police Department has been awarded a certificate of authorization (COA) to operate its drone as first responder (DFR) program beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) […]

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March 15, 2023

Red Cat Holdings Invests in Firestorm Modular Unmanned Aerial Systems Company

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) (“Red Cat” or the “Company”), a military technology company integrating robotic hardware and software to protect and support the warfighter, […]

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March 15, 2023

Can the DJI Avata Freestyle? (Explained for Beginners)

There are several reasons why the DJI Avata might not be the best drone to fly acrobatic freestyle.

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March 15, 2023

DJI Avata – Do I Need a Drone License to Fly? (Explained)

Like many things in aviation, it truly depends and what you plan on doing with the drone.

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March 15, 2023

SITA & Volocopter Collaborate on Digital Infrastructure for Vertiports

 Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), and SITA, the world’s leading IT provider to the air transport industry, have entered a partnership, with […]

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March 15, 2023

Royal Navy selects Animal Dynamics parafoil UAV for second phase of Heavy Lift challenge

With a payload capacity of 135kg, the Stork STM can fly up to 400km using a parafoil wing to generate lift.

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