DARPA intends to wirelessly charge drones while in flight by power-beaming
• Activist PostWhy recall a UAV when you can simply charge its battery while it's still in flight?
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DRONES to be introduced into Denver police to help respond to 911 calls after city defunded...
• https://www.dailymail.co, By EMMA RICHTERDRONES to be introduced into Denver police to help respond to 911 calls after city defunded the force by millions
China Builds World's First Dedicated Drone Carrier
• https://www.navalnews.com, H I SuttonChina has built the world's first dedicated drone carrier. The ship has not been reported however and many of the circumstances surrounding it remain a mystery.
Mayman Aerospace flying motorcycle becomes a military VTOL jet drone
• https://newatlas.com, By David SzondyMayman Aerospace has unwrapped its new family of jet-powered, High-Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing (HS VTOL) AI-equipped drones that can deliver everything from medical supplies to Hellfire missiles at 500 mph (800 km/h) in a compact airframe.
DARPA Manta Ray is a Breakthrough Unmanned Drone Submarine
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangNorthrop Grumman Corporation completed assembly of a full-size uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) prototype known as Manta Ray.
Getting drones to block cameras
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US Navy tests 'extra-large' Thunderbirds-style Manta Ray drone sub capable of long-distance.
• https://www.dailymail.co, By MATTHEW COXUS Navy tests 'extra-large' Thunderbirds-style Manta Ray drone sub capable of long-distance unmanned undersea missions
DARPA Drone? UFO? Or Deep Fake?
• https://www.activistpost.com, By Tyler Durden"I saw a UFO coming home yesterday! Can anyone help me identify what this is?! Posting the video and a still shot of the object," Michelle Reyes wrote on Facebook last month.
The World's First Flying Motorcycle Could Hit the Skies by the End of the Decade
• https://robbreport.com, By J. GEORGE GORANTBut Mayman Aerospace's bonkers mega-drones will be here faster. The inventor of the Speeder jet bike and Jetpack has pivoted into the military market, planning to apply that tech to its civilian projects.
Video: Crafty quadcopter sits on power lines to recharge
• https://newatlas.com, By Ben CoxworthBattery life wouldn't be an issue for drones if they could just recharge on power lines as needed. That's exactly what an experimental new quadcopter can now do, allowing it to stay aloft pretty much indefinitely.
Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB For Weeks
• BY JOSEPH TREVITHICK and TYLER ROGOWAYThe unidentified drones were such an issue that assets were called in from around the government, including a NASA WB-57 high-altitude jet.
28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
• https://newatlas.com, By Loz BlainMinesto's fully operational Dragon 12 looks like some sort of futuristic military drone – but it behaves remarkably like a kite underwater. It uses lift generated by tidal flows to fly patterns faster than the currents, harvesting renewable energy.
Huntress hybrid drone packs a 300+ mph turbojet core
• https://newatlas.com, By Loz BlainConnecticut-based WaveAerospace has announced "the world's fastest multirotor UAS," a "new class of aircraft" that's effectively a quadcopter drone with a raging jet turbine in the middle, capable of insane speeds and all-weather operation.
Interview 1863 - Take Musk's Brain Chip to Own the Libs! - #NewWorldNextWeek
• James Corbett - The Corbett ReportThis week on the New World Next Week: the dino media is dying; the drone wars are heating up; and anti-woke Elon is brain chipping his dupes to own the libs.
Biden says US 'shall respond' after drone strike by Iran-backed group kills 3 US troops in J
• Associated PressBiden blamed Iran-backed militias for the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes by such groups against American forces across the Middle East since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
Pentagon Offers Unusual Reason Why Anti-Air Defenses Failed At Jordan Border Base
• Zero Hedgeconfusion over inbound drone...
Wireless Power Network Could Maintain Drone Air Dominance for Years
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangCurrently, drones run out of power after days, hour or minutes. If there was wireless power beaming then electrically powered drones could stay flying over a battlefield indefinitely.
Pentagon Seeks EMP Weapon To Eliminate Drone Swarms
• Zero Hedge"EMP solutions could be ground and/or aerial based..."
Rotor R550X: A full-size autonomous helicopter anyone can buy
• https://newatlas.com, By Loz BlainRotor Technologies is now in production on a full-size unmanned helicopter for civilian use.
Kratos Reveals a Secret Stealth Drone
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangKratos has provided a rendering of its Thanatos stealth drone.
Fast Submarine-Hydrofoil Drone Prototype
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangKraken Technology Group and L3Harris Technologies have created advanced integration of control systems within the K40 MANTA submarine drone prototype.
Drone view of destruction in Gaza.
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Drone named after the Terminator demonstrates warfare abilities by dropping a torpedo from mid-air
• https://www.dailymail.co, By STACY LIBERATOREA drone called the T-600 -the same name as the Terminator - successfully launched a torpedo from the sky.
Crew-less Droneliner may one day slash the cost of airfreight
• https://newatlas.com, By Ben CoxworthWhile airfreight is certainly the fastest method of transporting cargo, it's also by far the most expensive. The Droneliner aircraft could help change that, by doing away with a crew and adopting a more cargo-friendly body shape.
This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You in the Dark
• https://www.wired.com, KHARI JOHNSONStartup Skydio says its powerful new drone for public safety can reduce the need for high-speed chases. Civil liberties groups warn that few rules govern police use of drones.
AtlasNEST aims to make airports safer, by deploying drones
• https://newatlas.com, By Ben CoxworthOrdinarily, drones flying around airports are thought of as a hazard. The AtlasNEST system, however, utilizes drones to fly over landing areas where problems may be occurring, in order to give control tower workers a bird's eye view.
Pentagon Developing AI Drone Swarms to "Deter" China
• https://www.activistpost.com, By Will PorterThe US military is devising a new system designed to field thousands of drones controlled by artificial intelligence, deputy Pentagon chief Kathleen Hicks said on Wednesday, voicing hopes the tech would help to overcome Beijing's "advantage in ma
US military plans to thwart China with 1,000s of autonomous war drones
• https://newatlas.com by Loz BlainThe US Deputy Secretary of Defense has officially kicked off the AI drone wars, announcing a radical "Replicator" plan to put many thousands of intelligent autonomous war drones into service within 18-24 months, to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Do Not Fear the Slaughterbot Drone Scenario Because It Won't Work
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangJamming systems can neutralize drones by causing them to crash, land, or return to the operator.
New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns
• https://apnews.com, BY JAKE OFFENHARTZThose attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may notice an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police surveillance drone.
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