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A Lower Austria police drone with a thermal camera located a missing 47-year-old hiker near Breitenfurt just 75 minutes after his sister's call — the heat signature glowing against the cool forest night.
Formula 1 ran FPV drone footage as a headline feature of its Austrian Grand Prix broadcast on Sunday, June 28, 2026, and the standout sequence put viewers directly above the early on-track fight between Lewis Hamilton in the Ferrari and Max Verstappen in the Red Bull at the Red Bull Ring. The shots aired live…
Europe just chose a helicopter drone to help hunt submarines, and it isn’t the small one Schiebel is famous for. The Austrian company’s heavy-lift Camcopter S-300 has been selected as the airborne platform for SWORD, a European Defence Fund project building a new way to find and kill submerged threats from a safe distance. It’s…
Vienna didn’t open the 70th Eurovision Song Contest with fireworks. It opened with 3,000 drones, as ESCXTRA reported. On the evening of April 27, Dubai-based production company Cyberdrone launched what organizers are calling the largest drone show ever staged in Austria over the Schönbrunn Palace, the 18th-century imperial complex that Viennese locals sometimes call the…
The resort partnered with technology firm KIONIQ to deploy DJI Matrice 4TD drones on DJI Dock 3 through its SPECT service
On June 1, 2025, Ukraine executed Operation “Spiderweb,” a drone-led assault targeting five Russian airbases, destroying dozens of strategic bombers hundreds of miles from its border. Reported by Ukrinform, this operation underscores Ukraine’s emergence as a global leader in drone warfare, showcasing its ability to innovate and defend against Russian aggression with homegrown technology. Spiderweb
€9M Seed Round for ARX Robotics’ Self-Driving Military Robots In a significant move, the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) has invested in ARX Robotics, a German startup developing self-driving robots for military use. The Munich-based company raised €9 million ($9.8 million) in seed funding, with over half coming from NIF, marking the fund’s second public investment…
In a stark warning, regulators were cautioned that time may be running out to control the emerging generation of artificially intelligent killing machines, reports Bloomberg Law. As governments from over 100 countries gathered in Vienna to discuss the integration of AI with military technologies, the urgency of the situation was made clear. The Proliferation of…
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