Aug 18, 2019 | Counter Drone News
(Bloomberg) — Drones attacked oil and gas facilities at the Shaybah field in southeast Saudi Arabia but failed to disrupt production, the kingdom’s Oil Minister Khalid Al-Falih said. Saudi Arabian Oil Co., or Aramco as the company is known, extinguished a small...
Aug 15, 2019 | Counter Drone News
Is it still a tiltrotor aircraft if the whole body tilts? The new “Fixar” drone, set to be presented at Russia’s MAKS-2019 airshow in late August, is a hybrid of sorts, a quadcopter with fixed wings. With limited moving parts and a flexible design, it’s the kind of...
Aug 13, 2019 | Counter Drone News
Iran announced the unveiling of several types of guided bomb on 6 August, although some of the weapons have been seen previously. The one that has not been seen before was a glide bomb with folding wings called the Balaban. A Ministry of Defence (MoD) statement...
Aug 13, 2019 | Counter Drone News
Colonel Turki Al Maliki, the spokesman of the Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy in Yemen, has said that on Sunday evening, the coalition forces managed to intercept and shoot down a drone lanced by the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist militia from Sanaa province...
Aug 7, 2019 | Counter Drone News
“Drones are becoming more and more powerful and smarter,” EU Security Commissioner Julian King warned this weekend, “which makes them more and more attractive for legitimate use, but also for hostile acts.” This is not new news—the threat from...
Aug 2, 2019 | Counter Drone News
A Navy fighter jet pilot on Wednesday was forced to dodge a non-military drone that was flying in restricted airspace over the Boca Chica Bridge in the Keys, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said. The pilot of an F/A-18 Super Hornet saw the drone — which was flying...
