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Featured Drone Pilot of the Day : Relief Air from Grenoble, France

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Dronestag is happy to welcome Relief Air on our new Worldwide Drone Directory !
Relief Air is based nearby the city of Grenoble in Rhone-Alpes, France, and have been flying drones since 2019. They work on a variety of projects involving aerial photography, video and 360° images.

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Raytheon Gets $10M DARPA Contract to Create Network of ‘Energy Webs”

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Raytheon, an RTX business, has received a $10 million contract from DARPA to design and develop a wireless airborne relay system to deliver energy into contested environments. The Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay program, known as POWER, aims to revolutionize energy distribution by leveraging power beaming for near-instantaneous energy transport in a resilient, multi-path network. […]

French Army Integrates Thales Spy’Ranger Drones and CAESAr Self-Propelled Howitzers

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In January 2023, the 68th Régiment d’Artillerie d’Afrique (68RAA) conducted operational preparation for its deployment to Romania as part of the Aigle mission, Laurent Lagneau reports in Opex360. During this preparation, they utilized a firing campaign at Canjuers to train their drone section in fire support coordination. This training also included validating a drone-observed firing […]

DZYNE Technologies Gets $49M US Air Force UAS Development Contract

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DZYNE Technologies has been awarded a seven-year, $49 million contract through the Small Business Innovation Research program to conduct research and development on advanced unmanned aerial systems for the U.S. Air Force. R&D efforts will include improving flight performance, sensor capabilities and flight endurance of long endurance UAS. Furthermore, the initiative seeks to advance low-cost precision […]

Matternet Approved to Launch BVLOS Drone Delivery Operations in Berlin

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Matternet, the developer of an urban drone delivery platform, announced that it has received approval from the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA), Germany’s Federal Aviation Office, to operate the Matternet M2 drone delivery platform beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) in the heart of Berlin. This marks the beginning of Berlin’s first ever BVLOS drone delivery network. […]

Johns Hopkins Researchers Study Autonomous Air Traffic Control for Drones

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Ten years from now, we could be in for a new sort of traffic jam. In the near future, posits a new study led by two members of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy, some 65,000 drones—weighing up to 55 pounds each, most of them programmed to operate without a pilot—will be “taking off, flying, or landing” […]

Douglas Aircraft Company Secret Projects

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Featuring many never-before-seen images, this video takes you behind the scenes at the Douglas Aircraft Company with once-Secret Projects, showing rocket planes, strategic bombers, global airlifters, and even jet airliners converted for highly-classified military missions. The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace and defense company based in Southern California. Founded in 1921 by Donald […]