Drones

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 The proliferation of drones and their unreg­ulated use within the country’s airspace poses a threat to the safety and se­curity of airlines and pas­sengers, the Director-General (D-G) of Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of Ghana, Mr Charles Kraikue, said yes­terday. He said the operation of these drones did not only…

T he armed forces will be equipped with more than 250 mini surveillance drones, including packable ones weighing just over 2.5 kilograms, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. The small foldable Indago drone and the Stalker, a near-silent drone weighing 20kg and providing more than eight hours of images, will…

Chinese food delivery and local service company Meituan launched its first normalized route of drones at a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) Base in Jinshan District, Shanghai on December 15. The drones will serve as the first step to Meituan‘s UAV commercial implementation in Shanghai, and become an important supplement to…

Ukraine said Wednesday it thwarted a Russian attack on Kyiv with its air defense system, shooting down 13 incoming explosive-laden drones, although wreckage from some of the aerial intercepts damaged five buildings. The capital's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, reported explosions in the central Shevchenkivskyi district in central Kyiv in the daybreak…

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on July 19. Photo: Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images An upcoming report to the UN Security Council obtained by Axios about Iran's compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal does not accuse Iran of supplying Russia with drones for…

The Turkish company that supplied Ukraine with a critical type of drone in the war against Russia successfully completed the first flight of a new supersonic drone it describes as an "unmanned fighter jet." Selçuk Bayraktar, the chairman of the board and the chief technology officer of Baykar, shared a…

Efrem Lukatsky/PA Images A man looks at St Michael Cathedral, standing near a monument to Princess Olga covered with sand bags to protect it from the Russian shelling # Kyiv Zelenskyy says Ukraine shot down 'all' Russian drones in latest attack on Kyiv City officials said debris from the downed…

Parts of a drone are seen at the site of a building destroyed by a Russian attack in Kyiv, on Dec. 14. The inscription reads 'For Ryazan.'GLEB GARANICH/Reuters Moscow on Wednesday said no “Christmas ceasefire” was on the cards after nearly 10 months of devastating war in Ukraine, even as…

AstroVictor/Shutterstock By Ron Baker/Dec. 13, 2022 6:04 pm EST When you consider that the first commercially viable consumer drone hit the shelves in 2010, it was at once amazing and maybe an understatement when Interesting Engineering speculated that we might be in the "golden age" of drone tech. Drones are improving…