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Aevum Releases Rocket-Launching Drone

January 12, 2021 Managing Editor

Aevum – an aerospace startup – recently released its rocket-launching drone designed to send small satellites into orbit without a pilot or a launchpad. Called the RAVN-X, after flight testing it is scheduled to launch […]

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US Navy Uses Camera-Equipped Drones To Detect Distant Targets

January 5, 2021 Managing Editor

Under the Submarine-Launched Unmanned Aerial System (SLUAS), the U.S. Navy is equipping submarines with camera-equipped drones that can be launched to detect targets too far away to be seen through a submarine periscope. Called “flying […]

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Marine Corps System Command Seeks Sources For Man-Portable System Able To Launch Swarms of Kamikaze Drones

December 15, 2020 Managing Editor

Marine Corps System Command (MARCORSYSCOM) has released an RFI for industry sources to produce a man-portable system capable of launching swarms of kamikaze drones over contested battlefields. Officially described as  an “individually operated, man-portable, anti-material, […]

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How Will Bumblebee Flight Impact Next Generation Drones and Autonomous Vehicles?

December 8, 2020 Managing Editor

A collaboration of researchers from UNSW Canberra, Bielefeld University, The Max Planck Institute, Brown University, and The University of California are studying how bumblebees fly – with an eye to applying that knowledge in the […]

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Army Funds $8M Research Project with University of Illinois for Autonomous Charging System for Drones

October 20, 2020 Managing Editor

The Army Research Laboratory’s Combat Capabilities Development Command has funded a four-year, $8 million research project with The University of Illinois Chicago to build an autonomous charging system that can support swarms of drones. The […]

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Tube-Launched SQUID Drone Removes Requirements for Takeoff Conditions

September 22, 2020 Managing Editor

Researchers at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have built a tube-launched drone that removes the standard requirements for takeoff conditions. The football-shaped foldable quadrotor is fired out of a cannon, unfolds itself, and then […]

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Army Research Laboratory Grants $780K to the Study of Combustion Engines in Aerial Army Drones

September 21, 2020 Managing Editor

Researchers from the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas have received a $780,000 grant from the Army Research Laboratory to study the combustion engines used in aerial Army drones. […]

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Oak Ridge National Lab Spinoff Seeks to Commercialize New Drone Operation System

September 14, 2020 Managing Editor

Horizon31 – a spin out from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – seeks to commercialize a system that allows users to operate drones from anywhere in the world using only an […]

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DoD Approves 5 Companies for Drone Production, Alternatives to Chinese-Made Systems

September 2, 2020 Managing Editor

The Defense Department’s technology innovation unit (DIU) recently approved five U.S. companies for drone production as alternatives to Chinese-made systems. Altavian, Parrot SA, Skydio, Teal, and Vantage Robotics are now all approved to provide Airborne […]

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US Army Tests Integrated Battle Command System to Overcome Enemy Jamming

August 24, 2020 Managing Editor

The U.S. Army recently tested Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) to overcome “enemy” jamming and direct Patriot missiles to intercept target drones. The Patriot radar and missile battery was integrated with a pair […]

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