Category: Drone News

Police drones to monitor Melbourne events  9News Police drones equipped with night vision will monitor major Melbourne events from as early as next month. Source link

Popular Parrot Mambo VR drone gets 50% price cut at Currys – now just £99  The Sun DRONES no longer have to cost an arm and a leg, as a spectacular 50%-off deal at Currys proves. One of Parrot’s most popular drone models is down from … Source link

Moment is making an anamorphic lens for DJI drones  The Verge Moment is expanding its line of add-on camera lenses beyond smartphones for the first time with a Kickstarter to launch an anamorphic lens for DJI drones. Source link

Police ‘had only trained to deal with one drone at a time’ before Gatwick chaos  Irish Examiner Police failed to stop drones causing chaos near Gatwick Airport because they had only trained to deal with one device at a time, a senior officer has suggested. Source link

Cops reveal there were TWO Gatwick drones taunting marksmen in Christmas getaway carnage  The Sun POLICE failed to tackle Gatwick Airport’s Christmas drone chaos because there were TWO devices flying – and they’d only trained to deal with one at a time. Source link

Defense Innovation Unit Fast Tracking Acquisition of Citadel Defense’s Automated Counter Drone Solution to Save Lives  Yahoo Finance SAN DIEGO, July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has awarded Citadel Defense an Other Transaction Authority contract to help Military, … Source link

Met Police to use drone to catch dangerous drivers  BBC News Safety charity Brake welcomes the use of technology to help “deter dangerous behaviour” on the roads. Source link

Terrifying Black Hornet drone no bigger than a pencil set to change modern warfare forever  Express.co.uk THE UNDETECTABLE Black Hornet nanodrone has been deployed by the US Army for the first time – with the pencil sized robot set to forever change the nature … Source link

Spy in the sky: UK drivers to be targeted by Met Police’s flying traffic drone  Express DRIVERS will be targeted by a spy in the sky as the Metropolitan Police are set to use Britain’s first traffic drone to catch speeding motorists. Source link

US Navy’s next-gen helicopter drone is ready for service  Engadget It took a few years, but the US Navy’s beefier Fire Scout helicopter drone is finally ready for action… more or less. The military branch has declared that N… Source link