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Airbus Helicopters Flexrotor

As the name suggests, combat search and rescue (CSAR) is an inherently risky kind of mission for a helicopter. It involves flying over and landing in hostile or contested territory, most likely in a race against both time and an adversary alerted...

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Lemvos LM450 USV & DockMaster

As the collective uncrewed systems industry matures, from a predominant focus on technical development to increased capacity for manufacturing reliable and maintainable vehicles at scale, competition inevitably breeds increasingly...

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AZAK S26

As long as ground vehicles have existed, a very particular issue of engineering and physics has posed a conundrum to numerous off-road mobility applications, affecting designers of defence, mining and construction vehicles...

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Everdrone E3 UAV

Thanks primarily to a widespread prevalence of unhealthy lifestyle habits, cardiac arrests are on the rise across much of the world, especially among younger demographics. Mounting obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes...

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Mente Marine Callboats CAT 10 L

The maritime passenger transport industry has been a hotbed for autonomy pilot projects for several years now, with legitimate causes beyond the mere profit motive of uncrewed systems manufacturers. For one, while many industries...

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Subdron vessel damage assessments

For six days in March 2021, the 400 m long container vessel Ever Given sat grounded in the Suez Canal. The majority of related news coverage delved busily into reasons for the grounding, the steps being taken to resolve it and its various consequences...

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Event 38 E455

Experienced commercial UAV operator Phoenix Air Unmanned (PAU) announced in early January that it had used a single Event 38 E455 fixed-wing VTOL aircraft to complete a 320 mile pipeline patrol in just 7.6 flight hours for Shell Pipeline Company...

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Impossible Metals’ Eureka underwater miner

Ore nodules collected from the seafloor represent a potentially enormous and untapped source of raw minerals, which are key to the fast-growing sustainable mobility and power grid industries, and are sufficiently widespread that many countries...

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Seasats Lightfish USV

Autonomously crossing the world’s great oceans is a challenging undertaking, but one made easier when uncrewed systems engineers have a large budget to work with, as the last few years have proven. But managing such stable, fault-free and persistent...

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Red Cat Holdings Black Widow

Small UAVs have carved themselves a dominant position in modern land warfare of late, with both sides in the Ukraine War using them for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike missions. The war has been characterised by demanding physical conditions...