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Chinese Company Refuses to Disable Its Drones in Ukraine
FROM THE MEDIA: Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, the notion of a no-fly zone over Ukraine has been bandied about. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has called for one, including in his address to Congress last week. resisted enacting a no-fly zone, as has the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as it would obligate the United States or NATO to shoot down Russian planes and therefore escalate the situation into a possible world war. Now, the Ukrainian government has another request related to the weapons being used by Russia in the war—but it’s not of a government, nor related to traditional planes. Instead, it has to do with drones from one specific company. The company in question is DJI, a Chinese drone manufacturer. "In 21 days of the war, Russian troops have already killed 100 Ukrainian children. They are using DJI products in order to navigate their missile[s],” Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation, said on Twitter last week. “Are you sure you want to be a partner in these murders? Block your products that are helping Russia to kill the Ukrainians!”
READ THE STORY: National Interest
Ukrainian Drones Are 'Using Elon Musk's Starlink' To Take Out Russian Tanks
FROM THE MEDIA: Elon Musk's Starlink devices are reportedly helping Ukrainian forces fight back against the Russian invasion. An Aerorozvidka air specialist revealed to The Times of London that the Ukrainian military has been connecting to Musk's satellite network to allow their technology to lock onto enemy targets. “If we use a drone with thermal vision at night, the drone must connect through Starlink to the artillery guy and create target acquisition," he said. He added the drones are modified with thermal cameras to identify Russian tanks at night, and the drones are equipped with anti-tank grenades.
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The weapons sent to help Ukraine, from drones to anti-tank missiles
FROM THE MEDIA: While President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call for Nato fighter patrols over Ukraine has gone unheeded, the West has not been reticent in providing crucial arms to keep Russia at bay. Initially, it was just Britain and America, which supplied Kyiv with anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. But now at least 18 countries are pouring in weapons. The missiles have already blunted Russian attacks around the country, but hundreds have already been fired, requiring urgent need for more supplies. It also appears that the weapons being provided are increasing in lethality. They include Britain’s Starstreak missile along with America’s Switchblade “kamikaze” drones. The quality of the weapons is such that some military analysts fear their secrets could become known to the Russians – and potentially the Chinese – if the arms are captured intact. But the stakes are so high that Nato appears willing to supply what it can to help Ukraine defeat the invasion.
READ THE STORY: The National News
This Drone-Shot Scavenger Hunt of SF Is High-Key Very Calming
FROM THE MEDIA: We’re massive fans of hyperlocal drone content. Not only do y’all like it — so long as our readership metrics aren’t fibbing in their summations — but they offer certain bird’s-eye views of San Francisco that allow us to see the city in new ways; familiar structures are afforded fresh textures, dimensions, and tones through elevated cinematography. In a metropolis that measures just 49-square-miles, you can sometimes be lulled into a false sense of guarantee that you’ve, in fact, seen and touched and experienced everything it has to offer. Alas: We all know that’s the farthest thing from the truth regarding San Francisco. (I, for example, forgot that Golden Gate Park contains ten lakes within its 1,021 acres.) And this drone-shot scavenger video recently shared to us by a reader both pays homage to some of SF’s famous fixtures and gives watchers additional viewpoints of them, all while dunking cochleas in a zen soundtrack that soothes as their pupils dance, looking for the described landmarks.
READ THE STORY: The Bold Italic
Methane detecting drone firm Flylogix flies high with £3m funding boost
FROM THE MEDIA: Methane detecting drone company Flylogix has received a £3m equity investment from BP Ventures, the investment firm from British oil and gas company BP. The cash injection from BP is the latest part of Flylogix’s current funding round, led by Amati Global, which has now reached a total of £6m. The new funding will be used by Flylogix to expand internationally. The company is seeking to provide its service to the US, Norway and Trinidad & Tobago. Flylogix combines unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with artificial intelligence to aid the detection of methane. The drones, which are operated partially autonomously, with oversight from a pilot on the shore, fly next to installations. This allows Flylogix to live stream data collected from the sites, using technology originally designed by NASA for the Mars Curiosity Rover. The Hampshire-based company has been working with BP since 2018, which has been using the UAVs to monitor BP’s assets to detect and reduce emissions.
READ THE STORY: UKTECH
KVK Thrissur conducts demo of drone spraying micro-nutrients
FROM THE MEDIA: Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Thrissur, has conducted a front-line demonstration of aerial spraying of the micro-nutrient mixture KAU Sampoorna (for rice) using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The spraying was done 30 and 50 days after the transplanting of the rice crop. The pilot demonstration was conducted in the 50-acre Neelichira Padasekharam at Pazhayannur, and the harvest festival was conducted to celebrate the bumper paddy yield. Suma Nair, Programme Coordinator, KVK Thrissur, said the demonstration was aimed to create awareness among farmers on the usage of UAVs for aerial spraying of micronutrient Sampoorna developed by Kerala Agricultural University. The pilot project has helped reduce the time and cost of operation to one-third. UAVs provide better and faster nutrient application than the commonly used knapsack sprayer. The demonstration was conducted to sensitise farmers on UAVs, the new face of agricultural mechanization. The operation cost can be brought down, and the timeliness of process can be ensured by the use of drones. The farmers were also convinced about the efficacy of applying micro-nutrients to enhance the crop’s productivity potential.
READ THE STORY: The Hindu Business Line
Drones are becoming a must-have equipment in today and future policing: Pejman Ghorbani, Head of Creative Solutions, Advanced Media Trading
FROM THE MEDIA: On the sidelines of The World Police Summit, Ghorbani opened up on the company’s participation in the event, DJI’s enterprise technologies and solutions concerning disaster management and firefighting and more The World Police Summit opened in the UAE last week with discussions on drone attacks, the future of law enforcement and the latest advances in crime scene forensics. The World Police Summit opened in the UAE on Monday with discussions on drone attacks, the future of law enforcement and the latest advances in crime scene forensics. On the sidelines of the event, Digital Studio chatted with Pejman Ghorbani, Head of Creative Solutions, Advanced Media Trading on the company’s participation in The World Police Summit, DJI’s enterprise technologies and solutions concerning disaster management and firefighting and more.
READ THE STORY: Digital Studio Me
Yemeni army warns of more retaliation as Saudis seize fuel tanker
FROM THE MEDIA: A spokesman for the Yemeni National Oil Company says the Saudi-led coalition has seized another fuel tanker heading for the impoverished nation which is under a crippling blockade of the kingdom. "The US-led coalition of aggression, in order to tighten the siege on the Yemeni people, confiscated the second tanker named Sea Adore carrying gasoline on Monday despite inspection and permit by the United Nations," Yemen's al-Masirah television quoted Essam al-Mutawakil as saying. "The seizure of this ship has clearly ignored the suffering that the Yemeni people have undergone due to the unprecedented shortage of fuel," he added. According to Mutawakil, the seizure raises the number of tankers by the Saudi coalition to three, including two ships carrying gasoline. Earlier, spokesman for the Yemeni Ministry of Health Anis al-Asbahi said that Yemen's health sector needed more than 6 million liters of diesel to keep hospitals and medical oxygen production plants operational. The Saudi coalition's confiscation of the new fuel tanker comes after Yemeni forces unleashed a barrage of retaliatory drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, targeting a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and oil facility and other energy installations.
READ THE STORY: Press TV
DJI’s enterprise drone goes foldable
FROM THE MEDIA: The first DJI Mavic turned the world of consumer drones on its head when it was released back in late-2016. The compact, foldable design launched a million copy cats around the world — including a number under the drone giant’s own umbrella. Compact certainly isn’t the first word that comes to mind in the enterprise space, however. Those designs tend to be far heavier and more robust than products designed to be stored in a photography backpack. Two years after the first model arrived, the company introduced enterprise capabilities for the Mavic 2. The biggest change there was the addition of a modular mount that could be used to add on things like a spotlight and a speaker to help it fly in less than ideal conditions. But for all intents and purposes, the Mavic 2 Enterprise was still a consumer drone with some added work benefit.
READ THE STORY: TechCrunch
Utah drone company supplies Ukrainians with secure, life-saving technology
FROM THE MEDIA: A Utah drone company is helping save Ukrainian lives by supplying them with drones they can use for reconnaissance amid the war with Russia. Until now, Ukrainians had been using Chinese-made drones, as those are some of the most used across the world. However, the country is now turning to more secure American-made drones, and a Utah company is one of the only ones that can meet the demand. “This category of drone is one of the most impactful technologies in a war like what's going on in Ukraine right now,” said George Matus, the Founder and CEO of Teal. Matus said Ukrainians found out that the Chinese drones they were using had a back door that allowed Russia to track the drones, endangering the Ukrainians flying them. Now, Ukrainians are in need of fully secure drones that are built for defense and can't be tracked. Matus’ Salt Lake City-based company is supplying them with their flagship product called the Golden Eagle. “This was originally designed for the U.S. Army, to give them that capability, so it's completely cyber secure and rugged. Made here in the U.S.A.” Matus said.
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Can drones be the aspirin for pharma supply chain headaches?
FROM THE MEDIA: Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers have been under siege. Supply chain disruptions have limited access to everything from personal protective equipment to vaccines for both COVID-related illnesses and familiar diseases like the flu, at a time when the globe needs them most. Seeing those disruptions, a trio of companies — Melbourne, Australia-based Swoop Aero, London’s Skyports and Kelberg, Germany-headquartered BD Rowa — are joining forces to open up an air-based avenue for medical and pharmaceutical deliveries. The three companies announced Monday that they would combine air logistics expertise with health care-oriented technology to add a network of delivery drones to global health supply chains. Swoop Aero and Skyports, two global leaders in drone technology, will integrate their solutions into BD Rowa’s infrastructure of automated technology for the health care and pharmaceutical industries, which includes robots that can automatically pick and dispense medications. The company also recently added a last-mile delivery network.
READ THE STORY: Freight Waves
Items of interest
Drone Warfare Just Got Deadlier(Video)
Drone warfare has transformed combat. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force utilized Turkish-made drones to offset some of Russia’s enormous military advantage. Drones are also incorporating more A.I. Now “slaughterbots” don't just exist in science fiction. Autonomous drones may have been used in Libya and governments are pouring billions into their development.
How Drones Are Completely Changing Warfare(Video)
FROM THE MEDIA: A drone loiters in the sky. A crew controls from a distance, hunting for targets. A strike is launched, the explosion tearing apart buildings, vehicles and people with shocking ease.
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