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Engineers from the University of Manchester have built and launched the world’s largest quadcopter, the Giant Foamboard Quadcopter (GFQ). The drone, made of a cardboard-like material called foam board, measures 6.4 meters long from corner to corner and weighs 24.5 kg. The four arms consist of a series of hollow box structures and can be […]
SAS demonstrated for the first time the configuration of the SARISA SRS-1A rotary-winged drone with the RL275-1S missile launcher. The company’s representatives said that the system is attracting increased interest from Ukraine and other countries. “This is a unique system. Missiles are usually launched from large helicopters such as Apache and Cobra. We offer an […]
DJI will expand its line of low-cost quadcopters in two days. DJI Air 3 drone will be presented in China this week. What is known The unmanned aerial vehicle will be equipped with a triple main camera. The resolution is not specified, but some parameters of the optical modules are already known. In particular, the […]
Experts from Turkish companies InterData and Roketsan have integrated a miniature anti-tank missile Mete into a Gok Alp quadcopter, demonstrating the next step in the development of attack UAVs. In essence, they turned a small drone into a precision weapons carrier. The Gok Alp weighs 27.5 kg. It can stay in the air for up […]
The unmanned aerial vehicle was conducting reconnaissance over the Russian plant Fakel. The drone went down on the territory of the plant, probably because of a communication jammer. The Fakel plant is located a couple of kilometers from Moscow, if we are talking about the city border, not the center of the capital. The company […]