Tag: drones
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24-hour Drone Surveillance to Be Imposed on Sochi Olympics
from rawstory.com: The spider-like helicopter can whirr up straight into the sky, hover over cars and people, zoom in on a license plate and then take a close-up of a man’s face in the crowd. If there is suspicious movement at Russia’s Sochi Winter Olympic Games next year, surveillance drones positioned over stadiums, roads and…
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#Amazon Testing Delivery By #Drones
from chicagotribune.com: Amazon.com Inc. is testing delivery packages using drones, CEO Jeff Bezos said Sunday on the CBS television program “60 Minutes.” Bezos said the drones, unmanned vehicles that fly through the air, could deliver packages that weigh up to five pounds. That represents roughly 86 percent of packages that Amazon delivers, he said. The…
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F-16 Flies With Empty Cockpit
from boeing.com: As a pilotless F-16 roared into the sky last week at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., members of Boeing’s QF-16 team and the U.S. Air Force celebrated. The flight represented the first unmanned QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target flight. Put another way, fighter pilots now have an adversary for which to train against…
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‘Naming the Dead’ project will name and number people killed by drone airstrikes to challenge CIA claims of no civilian deaths
from rawstory.com: A project launched on Monday aims to record properly the names and numbers of people who are killed by US drone airstrikes in Pakistan. The website, “Naming the Dead”, is an initiative by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), a not-for-profit organisation that has won awards for its work exposing some of the…
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Domestic Drone Industry Booms
from ActivistPost.com: The drone arms race has gone global. But inside the United States, a study by the Association For Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) showed why drone proliferation continues to ramp up at a nearly exponential rate: it has become one of the fastest growing areas of the U.S. economy. A report entitled, “The…
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#DARPA looking to build underwater drone ‘mothership’
from RT.com: The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced plans to develop an unmanned, submersible ‘mother ship’ to transport and deploy aerial and underwater drones. The much-vaunted DARPA, which is tasked with expanding technology and science for use in defense projects, is now looking to build an unmanned undersea system that can…
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Homeland Security Considering Arming Border Drones With ‘Non-Lethal Weapons’
from StratRisks.com: Attacks by U.S. unmanned drones in the Middle East and Africa are commonplace, but it would be unheard of to see these aerial military weapons appearing over the U.S.-Mexico border. Yet it’s a possible scenario, according to a newly-unearthed document from the country’s leading federal border agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. According…
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FBI director admits domestic use of #drones for surveillance
from RT.com: The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday. Robert Mueller (pictured), the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed to lawmakers that the FBI owns several unmanned aerial vehicles, but has not adopted any strict policies or guidelines yet to govern the use…
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Spy Drone Can See What You Are Wearing From 17,500 Feet
A new camera developed by the Pentagon’s research arm was highlighted in a recent special on PBS’ “Nova” in an episode called “Rise of the Drones.” It’s a camera system so detailed it can discern specific movements and even what a subject is wearing. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous…
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Exclusive: (AFRICOM) US Armed Forces Piloting Drones From Bases In Germany
from StratRisks.com: The targeted killing of presumed terrorists by drones in Africa has been largely conducted from US military bases in Germany, an investigation by German TV channel ARD’s “Panorama” and the Süddeutsche Zeitung has revealed. Particularly involved in running the drone missions are the Stuttgart-based US military high command for Africa (Africom) and the US Air Force’s Air…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode154 – Portland Defeats Fluoride, London Murder, Robot Surgery
Portland Voters Reject Water Fluoridation // British Soldier Literally Butchered On London Street // Jury Deliberations To Begin In First Case of 26 Malpractice Suits Involving Robot Surgery
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‘Campaign to Stop Killer Robots’ calling for ban on ‘fully autonomous weapons’
from rawstory.com: The idea of autonomous killer robots may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but human rights groups are already preparing for what appears to be the future of weaponry. The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a coalition of international groups, is preparing for a global summit in Geneva Switzerland on Wednesday, May 29…
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OK Drone: Vietnam Enters the UAV Market
from apperspective.net: Vietnam flight tested six indigenously made Unmanned Aerials Vehicles (UAVs) over the weekend, Xinhua News Agency reported. “After three days of tests, from May 17-19, in Da Lat city and Lac Duong district of Lam Dong province, six vehicles made by the Vietnam Space Technology Institute, under the Vietnam Academy of Science and…
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UAVs are searching for oil in Norway
from stratrisks.com: Like an army, science needs the high ground. This is true when it comes to oil exploration and especially so in the rugged landscape of Norway. The Virtual Outcrop Geology (VOG) group at the Norwegian Centre for integrated petroleum research (CIPR) is working to capture this vantage point in a distinctly 21st century…
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Australian Police Use Drones to “Combat Crime” Ahead of G20
The Courier-Mail can reveal Police Minister the aircraft in time for the trans-national G20 conference in November next year.