Counter-UAS News
ABC News Video: Drone Collides with Black Hawk
UAS Vision: Coalition Airstrikes Kill ISIS Drone Experts
“Abu Salman, an ISIS drone developer, was killed during airstrikes Sept. 14 while traveling with a terrorist associate in a vehicle from Mayadin to Asharah. His research workshop, located in Asharah, near Mayadin, was also destroyed in the strikes. His death and the destruction of his drone facility greatly disrupt ISIS’ development of weaponized drones and testing of new software.”
NPR: FAA Restricts Drones Over Major U.S. Landmarks
“The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a new regulation restricting unauthorized drone operations over 10 Department of Interior sites, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore.”
BJNN: SRC PLANS TO ADD 1,000 DRONE-RELATED JOBS IN NEXT FIVE YEARS
“The nonprofit SRC will initially hire 50 engineers following its announcement of a $65 million contract with the U.S. Army to develop a system to detect and defeat small drones.”
UAS Vision: Camera Drone Flies Onto, Inside, Under Moving Train
“Camera drone operator Paul Nurkkala just released a video titled “Flight of the Year” that showcases his world-class drone piloting skills. He captured some seemingly impossible footage of his drone flying onto, next to, inside, and under a moving freight train.”
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Daily Caller: FBI Director: Terrorist Drones ‘Coming Here Imminently’
“I think we do know that terrorist organizations have an interest in using drones,” Wray testified in a hearing for the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
Forbes: Federal Judge Overturns City Drone Ordinance In First Ruling Of Its Kind
“The City of Newton, Massachusetts, like many state and local governments, thought it could regulate drone flights in the airspace over its city limits. It passed a law this past December that sought to ban unmanned aircraft flights below 400 feet, to ban flights over private and public property without the landowner’s permission, and to require local registration of drones. A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled today that the City of Newton was wrong: It does not have that authority because it is pre-empted by the federal government.”
Forbes: What’s The Status Of Local Drone Ordinances After The Singer Decision?
“Last week, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts overturned a City of Newton drone ordinance on the grounds that it conflicted with federal laws and was, therefore, preempted.”
The Register: Brit military wants a small-drone-killer system for £20m
“”The Capability shall be able to Detect, Track, Identify and Defeat UAS’s with weight ranges of between 2-150kg. With a specific area of focus on the 2-22kg and a minimum defeat range of” [sic], stated the contract notice, which appeared to have been cut short in its public form.”
Reuters: Australia okays use of China drones in non-classifed operations
“The Australian government has resumed the use of Chinese-built drones in non-classifed situations, the country’s defense minister said on Thursday.”
NY Times: Pentagon Tests Lasers and Nets to Combat a Vexing Foe: ISIS Drones
“At the vast, windswept White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico earlier this year, nearly a dozen military contractors armed with laser guns, high-tech nets and other experimental systems met to tackle one of the Pentagon’s most vexing counterterrorism conundrums: how to destroy the Islamic State’s increasingly lethal fleet of drones.”
Washington Post: The security threat we’ve been ignoring: Terrorist drones
“Two years ago, you would have had a tough time getting a meeting with a junior staffer in Washington to discuss the subject. A year ago, people had begun furrowing brows. Now, this is Topic A for an entire “community of experts that has emerged inside the federal government,” as National Counterterrorism Center chief Nicholas Rasmussen told a panel of senators Wednesday. “It’s a real problem,” he said.”
Fox News: Danes arrest man for allegedly sending drones, cameras to IS
“A Copenhagen court has jailed a man for 25 days under Denmark’s anti-terror laws for allegedly shipping drones, components for unmanned aerial vehicles and infrared cameras that were bound for the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.”
You Tube: Fortem DroneHunter™ Demonstration
UAV Expert News: Drone Hits Woman By Pool
“A news article found on KDWN AM 720‘s website, reports that a young woman lounging by the Palms Place Resort pool in Las Vegas, NV, was struck by a drone. The woman, whose name has not been released, was sent to a local hospital after sustaining a serious injury to her upper leg from a drone that ‘fell out of the sky’.”
Washington Times: ‘Swarm attack’ from armed drones pose ‘grave threat’ to Trump
“The Secret Service is facing a “grave” threat to President Trump from a new wave of high-tech weapons including armed drones, plastic guns made on 3-D printers and even sophisticated IEDs, according to a new alert issued by a former agent.”
Defense Blog: Chinese defence company offers new counter-UAV system
“The new counter-UAV system can disrupt the navigation of an unmanned aircraft, forcing it to land or return to base. With more and more civil UAV increasing, which brought big threat to the security, if UAV.”
You Tube: Nammo Ammo Takes Down UAV
You Tube: Drone over Blackhawk helicopters in Kingwood Texas