Is this the end of manned fighter planes? đ
âThe F-35â would have no chanceâ against a âdrone fighter plane thatâs remote controlled by a human.â
At a time of fast-paced drone proliferation, militaries around the world are actively pursuing research and development in swarms.
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Space startup, Aevum, just unveiled the product of years of workâa sleek, autonomous, rocket-launching aircraft called Ravn X.
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The question really is not if, but when and where drone swarms, which is the next evolution of robotic warfare, will be utilised in real-time operations.
If the U.S. and China ever come to blows, this vessel will play a big part in the battle.
The U.S. Marine Corps is taking a completely new tack to providing fire support during amphibious landings: unmanned boats stocked full of suicide drones.
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The incredible world first, designed by Urban Air Port, will be located next to the cityâs Ricoh Arena and will allow air taxis and electric drones to land and recharge dailystar.
German drone technology startup Wingcopter has raised a $22 million Series A â its first significant venture capital raise after mostly bootstrapping. The company, which focuses on drone delivery, has come a long way since its founding in 2017, having developed, built and flown its Wingcopter 178 heavy-lift cargo delivery drone using its proprietary and patented tilt-rotor propellant mechanism, which combines all the benefits of vertical take-off and landing with the advantages of fixed-wing aircraft for longer-distance horizontal flight.
This new Series A round was led by Silicon Valley VC Xplorer Capital, as well as German growth fund Futury Regio Growth. Wingcopter CEO and founder Tom PlĂŒmmer explained in an interview that the addition of an SV-based investor is particularly important to the startup, since itâs in the process of preparing its entry into the U.S., with plans for an American facility, both for flight testing to satisfy FAA requirements for operational certification, as well as eventually for U.S.-based drone production.
Wingcopter has already been operating commercially in a few different markets globally, including in Vanuatu in partnership with Unicef for vaccine delivery to remote areas, in Tanzania for two-way medical supply delivery and in Ireland where it completed the worldâs first delivery of insulin by drone beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), the industryâs technical term for when a drone flies beyond the visual range of a human operator who has the ability to take control in case of emergencies.
Since the dawn of time, humankind has looked to the skies and sought to conquer them. For thousands of years we tried and failed until, at last, we could soar amongst the birds. We built biplanes that danced upon gusts of wind, strapped sails to our back and leapt off fog-drenched mountaintops, launched warplanes into the wild blue yonder to rain terror from above. The heavens were soon streaked with the vapor trails of jumbo jets; the oligarchy used its deep pockets for casual jaunts to the threshold of outer space. And then, with the skies at last firmly in our dominion, we once again turned our eyes upward and declared, âKnow what would look great up there? Pizza.â
The technology to flood our skies with millions of pizza boxes does not exist just yet, but itâs taken a huge leap forward in Israel, where, The Wall Street Journal reports, Pizza Hut is launching the worldâs first ever full-time drone delivery service. The pilot program is being heavily regulated by the government, and Pizza Hutâs human delivery drivers donât need to worry about being replaced (yet), as the drones will not be making direct-to-customer drop-offs. Instead, the flying robots will bring multiple orders to designated landing zones outside of Pizza Hutâs normal delivery radius, where theyâll be picked up by a driver who will take the pizzas to their final destinations.
The dronesâ home base will be a Pizza Hut located in Bnei Dror in Northern Israel, and will allow the restaurant to provide delivery service to an additional 7000 households. The Ministry of Transportation has limited the dronesâ flight area to about 50 square miles, and each droneâs limited battery life means thereâs little chance of one going rogue.
These cute drones are partially made from the trashed leaves of harvested pineapples which make them lighter, faster and most importantly greener! đ.
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has used drones to create a prototype of a small airborne quantum network. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the researchers describe sending entangled particles from one drone to another and from a drone to the ground.
Computer scientists, physicists and engineers have been working over the last several years toward building a usable quantum network âdoing so would involve sending entangled particles between users and the result would be the most secure network ever made. As part of that effort, researchers have sent entangled particles over fiber cables, between towers and even from satellites to the ground. In this new effort, the researchers have added a new elementâdrones.
To build a long-range quantum network, satellites appear to be the ideal solution. But for smaller networks, such as for communications between users in the same city, another option is needed. While towers can be of some use, they are subject to weather and blockage, intentional or otherwise. To get around this problem, the researchers used drones to carry the signals.
