The Russian military claims three MiG-31s scrambled to intercept an RQ-4B operating in neutral waters over the Chukchi Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean bound in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, on Aug. 11. Continue reading
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Liteye Systems Joins Inc. 5000 Revenue Growth List
Inc. magazine revealed that Liteye Systems, Inc. is No. 1513 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000. Continue reading
CIA Reveals Details of Bird-Like 1970s Stealth Drone
Bird-like Aquiline drone prototype by McDonnell Douglas
The CIA’s Project Aquiline was a drone with a ten-foot wingspan which would carry out spy missions deep into the Soviet Union. The CIA has declassified a new stash of documents about the project from the early 1970s, revealing among other things, plans to fit nuclear propulsion and have it operating out of the celebrated Area 51. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Gets Triton Net Enabled Weapons Support Award from US Navy
MQ-4C Tritons at a Northrop Grumman test facility in Palmdale, California
The US Department of the Navy plans to award Northrop Grumman’s aerospace systems business a delivery order to provide analysis support for demonstration activities involving the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial system. Continue reading
Predicting Helicopter Damage Caused by Drone Collision
Researchers at the Delft University of Technology, TU Delft, have produced a 98-Page research thesis on ‘Predicting helicopter damage caused by a collision with an Unmanned Aerial System using explicit Finite Element Analysis‘. Continue reading
PrecisionHawk Awarded Patents for UTM
PrecisionHawk, Inc., has announced that it has been awarded two patents for technologies it has developed for unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM). The patents, titled ‘Automated Unmanned Air Traffic Control System,’ are designed to enable collision avoidance between drones and manned aircraft. This is achieved by transmitting real-time flight data from drones to a UTM server prior to and while in-flight. Continue reading
AR Interaction Interface for Autonomous Drone Navigation
Researchers Chuhao Liu and Shaojie Shen from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology revealed an intriguing new way to control drones that uses holographic augmented reality hardware to create live 3D terrain maps, enabling drone pilots to simply point at targets visualized above any flat surface. Continue reading
Drone harvesting? Yes you can!
Drones are now more or less routinely used by farmers across the globe to determine soil characteristics, check crop conditions, monitor irrigation systems and spray crops. But not for harvesting crops, yet. Continue reading