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China just put another piece of its low-altitude cargo strategy in the air. The HH-200, a twin-engine unmanned freighter built by AVIC Xi’an Aircraft Industry Group, completed its maiden flight on April 15 at Pucheng, in Shaanxi Province, as Defense Mirror reports. The program targets short-haul freight routes, cross-island logistics in Southeast Asia, and Belt…
For the first time in the war, Ukraine seized a Russian position without a single soldier stepping forward. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Monday that an enemy position had been taken “exclusively by unmanned platforms — ground systems and drones,” forcing Russian soldiers to surrender with zero Ukrainian casualties, according to Business Insider. That account…
Ukraine just received its first batch of Linza 3.0 tactical drones from Quantum Frontline Industries, the Ukrainian-German joint venture that stood up its Bavarian production line barely four months ago, as reported by The Defense Post. The handover marks the shift from production setup to serial manufacturing — and signals that Europe’s defense-industrial cooperation with…
The FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) is now doing something U.S. aviation regulators have never done: letting companies fly commercial missions with uncertified aircraft, then using the data to write the rules afterward. A detailed report from Aviation International News published March 31 breaks down how the eight selected projects, spanning 26 states, will…
Avinox, DJI’s e-bike drive system brand, has announced its next-generation M2S and M2 drive units, targeting the high-performance end of the e-bike market with peak outputs that put them closer to light electric motorcycles than traditional mid-drive systems. The M2S tops out at 1,500W and 150 Nm of torque, while the M2 reaches 1,100W and…
WSJ reveals Tesla, Figure AI humanoid robots depend on Chinese parts. Congress is using the same ban strategy it deployed against DJI drones.
Skydio opens a Zürich R&D office focused on GPS-denied navigation and multi-drone coordination, led by a PhD alum of the lab that trained him.
Fifteen years after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, palm-sized drones have flown inside the Unit 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi and reached what engineers had been trying to see since the meltdown began: the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel, surrounded by what TEPCO believes is…
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