Terra Drone, a Japanese industrial drone service provider, and KDDI Corporation, a Japanese telecommunications operator have succeeded in a fully autonomous flight experiment of “Smart Drone”
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
US Army issues information request for counter-UAS SHORAD programme
The US government (USG) has issued a request for information on solutions to defend maneuvering formations and other tactical echelons from low altitude air attack
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ANSI launches industry call to help develop standards for UTM roadmap
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has issued a call for participants for its Unmanned Aircraft Systems Standardization Collaborative (UASSC). The announcement follows the UASSC’s kick-off meeting held September
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Special report: Europe’s EUR4 billion UTM development and standards programme
The European Union’s (EU) UAS traffic management (UTM) programme will deliver around EUR123 billion in benefits, cost EUR 4.095 billion to create and take until
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“FAA must limit recreational drone use to line of sight” – ALPA
Captain Tim Canoll, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), issued the following statement regarding this week’s findings from a Federal Aviation Administration
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European Parliament, Council agree EU rules for drone design and safety
The first ever EU-wide rules for the civil use of drones were agreed by the European Parliament and European Council negotiators on Thursday morning, says
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Amazon “researching drones that safely disintegrate in mid-air”
Digital Trends magazine (https://www.digitaltrends.com) reports that Amazon is researching an innovative system that would cause a drone to disintegrate in flight if the platform ran
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FAA research shows drones more lethal than birds in mid-air collisions
A research team from the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) has released a report (http://www.assureuas.org/projects/deliverables/sUASAirborneCollisionReport.php) that concludes that drones that
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Mercedes Zurich drone delivery programme reaches 100 flights
Mercedes-Benz Vans, US drone systems developer Matternet and Swiss online marketplace siroop have completed 100 flights of their pilot project in Zurich to test an efficient van
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Thales purchases counter-UAS radar manufacturer Aveillant
Thales has completed the take-over of UK-based holographic radar manufacturer Aveillant. Holographic radars perform very differently to standard surveillance techniques by establishing a permanent and
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