DefenceTalkDefenceTalkIn conjunction with the Department of Defence, University of South Australia material scientists have developed a range of lightweight panels that can change colour on demand, allowing drones to match their appearance to the background colours of the sky. Ever since the French had the bright idea of using hydrogen balloons for military surveillance in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/adding-chameleon-like-capabilities-to-defence-drones-76300/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe world is entering a military “second drone age” with uncontrolled proliferation and no standards governing their use, a United Nations expert told the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday. Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said the global community needed to take stock of how armed drones have […]https://www.defencetalk.com/world-entering-new-military-drone-age-un-expert-75879/

DefenceTalkChina has exported military drones to more than 10 countries in deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and plans to sell unmanned craft capable of launching laser-guided bombs, state-run media said Thursday. Chinese drones “have bigger payloads, which means they can carry more weapons” than their competitors, Shi Wen, chief drone designer at the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-exported-military-drones-to-10-nations-report-67301/

DefenceTalkToronto film festival movies on Sunday delved into the ethical and legal quagmire created using drones to kill US enemies overseas from a base in the Nevada desert. “Eye in the Sky,” stars Academy Award Winner Helen Mirren as a colonel who hunts the world’s most wanted terror suspects from an underground bunker in London, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/toronto-film-festival-targets-drones-65372/

DefenceTalkHackers’ arsenal was beefed up with a drone armed with weapons to crack into wireless computer networks at close range, whether they be in skyscrapers or walled compounds. David Jordan of US-based Aerial Assault was at an infamous Def Con hacker gathering on Sunday, showing off a drone that could be dispatched on missions to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/aerial-assault-drone-is-armed-with-hacking-weapons-64957/

DefenceTalkPresident Barack Obama’s admission that a US drone strike accidentally took the lives of two hostages has raised fresh questions about the limits and the risks of the country’s “targeted killing” campaign. Since taking office in 2009, Obama has relied heavily on drone raids to hunt down Al-Qaeda leaders and other Islamist extremists from Pakistan’s […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-drone-war-under-scrutiny-after-botched-strike-63974/

DefenceTalkPakistan on Friday successfully tested its first indigenous armed drone named Buraq, and its laser guided missile named Barq. The drone has the ability to fly in all types of weather conditions and strike its targets with pinpoint accuracy. Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif attended the ceremony and witnessed the test fire of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-tests-first-drone-named-buraq-63502/

DefenceTalkArgentina will manufacture locally designed military drones, according to an announcement Tuesday in the official government gazette. Argentina plans to use the drones, expected to fly as long as 12-20 hours, on its ships in searches at sea. The program has an initial investment of 238 million dollars, the gazette said. The government contract is […]https://www.defencetalk.com/argentina-to-make-military-drones-63468/

DefenceTalkThe United States is the world’s technological leader in the development and deployment of military Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). As other nations begin to employ military UAS more regularly and as the nascent commercial UAS market emerges, the United States has a responsibility to ensure that sales, transfers, and subsequent use of all U.S.-origin UAS […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-export-policy-military-unmanned-aerial-systems-uas-63140/

DefenceTalkBritain and France Wednesday tasked two major defence contractors with a two-year feasibility study over a joint military drone project, with the aim of getting it off the ground by 2030. The British and French government tasked BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation with the study following a political agreement reached at the Farnborough air show […]https://www.defencetalk.com/britain-france-launch-feasibility-study-for-joint-military-drones-60964/