Tag: uav
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#MorningMonarchy: September 26, 2017
Tracking phones, losing domains and givin’ ’em the FingerPay + this day in history w/the nuclear Cold War false alarm and our song of the day by B•R•A•U•N on your Morning Monarchy for September 26, 2017.
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How 3D Printing Will Create On-Demand Swarms Of Disposable Drones
from gizmodo.com: New advances in 3D printing are making it not only possible but also viable to manufacture cheap, print-on-demand, disposable drones designed simply to soar off over the horizon and never come back. Some British engineers did just that, and this is only the beginning. The team hails from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Center…
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Dirigible Drones Will Watch the World From 13 Miles Up
from wired.com: With UAVs crowding navigable airspace and plans underway to put giant mega-satellites into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, is conceptualized to do just that. Designed to be about the length of a…
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Army prepares to replace thousands of troops with military robots
from rt.com: An all-out drone war seems inevitable given the rapid rate at which battlefield technology is advancing in this day and age, but a United States Army commander expects an arsenal of robotic warriors could be but a few years away. Gen. Robert Cone, the chief of the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, said…
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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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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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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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Drones fly through privacy law loophole
from ap-perspective.blogspot.com: Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has warned it may be impossible to use Australia’s privacy laws to prevent someone from being filmed secretly in their own home by a drone. He says he is confident the Federal Privacy Act would control the actions of government agencies or businesses operating a drone for surveillance.…
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US Air Force Testing Drone Lasers Above North Dakota
from slate.com: It’s fair to say North Dakota has a fraught relationship with drones. First there was the strange and historic arrest of a farmer in the state involving an unmanned aircraft. Now military-grade Predator drones are set to test “non-eye safe” lasers flying near Devils Lake in specially restricted airspace, prompting complaints from civilian…
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Iran Captures CIA Drone
Iran reports capture of CIA drone, this week, on Iran TV. It appears to be a CIA RQ-170 (UAV), taken into possession by Iran about 140 miles inside its eastern border. // Update: Obama appeals to Iran to give back downed drone