Obstacle Avoidance Drones For Everyone

The MIT project for a small drone capable of flying at high speed through dense forest was impressive as a demonstration of ‘sense-and-avoid’ but it looked too futuristic to be mainstream. For this week’s CES show, Qualcomm are showing that...

Scenario: A Queen in Trouble

The aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth was the pride of the Royal Navy when she was commissioned in 2020. Britain had not had a carrier since HMS Invincible retired in 2005, and the politicians were eager to show what a difference the new ship would make. Within...

Russian Flamethrowing Drones??

When Alexander Yakunin, a director of leading Russian arms company Rostec, told the newspaper TASS that his company is building small multicopters armed with flamethrowers, you might have assumed he was joking. The flamethrowing drone is not a practical weapon.  ...