Tag Archives: drone

Tuesday, 28 March 2017 The skies over Israel may soon meet Optimus, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of operating without human assistance. The drone can be without human control for about 30 minutes, and Airobotics, the company that created Optimus, is the first firm in the world given permission …

Saturday, 18 March 2017 Commercial drones present quite a problem for Western armies, because there’s still no adequate defense system to stop them. When faced with a need to down a drone, NATO armies have to rely on convenient anti-aircraft weapons. And some country turns out to have done just …

Wednesday, 1 March 2017 SHANGHAI – An undisclosed buyer has placed the largest overseas order for China’s home-developed military drones in a boost for the Chinese arms industry’s efforts to increase export volumes. The order for the Wing Loong II was placed before the next-generation unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully …

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 BEIJING – China has successfully tested a Wing Loong II multitask unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on Tuesday. The drone has a wingspan of 20.5 meters (67.3 feet), a height of 4.1 meters (13.5 feet), and length of 11 meters (36 feet). The maximum flying altitude of the aircraft is 9 …

Saturday, 25 February 2017 BEIJING: A video of Siberian tigers at a Chinese zoo sprinting in the snow and smashing a drone to the ground has gone viral online weeks after the animal park was criticised because its big cats were obese. The tigers at the state-run Siberian Tiger Park …

  Wednesday, 22 Feb 2017 :  French Air Force is training eagles from a young age to bring down remote-controlled drones when they enter no-go urban airspace. Golden eagles filmed at the air force base in Mont-de-Marsan on Feb 10 are getting military training for combat against battery-charged drones that …

Thursday, 17 November 2016 DJI has just introduced a couple of new drones into the market. The first is the “pro” version of the Phantom 4, predictably called the Phantom 4 Pro while the second is the update to its high-end Inspire line called the Inspire 2. While the Phantom …

Thursday, 25 August 2016 WELLINGTON: A New Zealand pizza chain aims to become the world’s first company to offer a commercial drone delivery service, a milestone in the once-unthinkable quest to save time and money with an air-borne supply chain dispensing with people. Some of the world’s biggest companies including …

Thursday, 11 August 2016   An unmanned aircraft system (UAS) developed by engineers from the University of Southampton uses a powered tether to provide unlimited flight time for drones. The developers say it could offer a more cost-effective solution for aerial monitoring and surveillance than other options on the market. …

Wednesday, 23 August 2017 :  Drone maker DJI announced yesterday that it’s pushing out a firmware fix in response to a pernicious problem that sent an unspecified number of its new Spark drones falling out of the sky. One thing to note for Spark owners: if you don’t install the …