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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/7/17
July 31, 2017 – August 6, 2017
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/31/17
A U.S. Army soldier launches an RQ-11 Raven during an exercise in North Carolina on July 27. Credit: Staff Sgt. Andrew Lee/U.S. Air Force
July 24, 2017 – July 30, 2017
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/24/17
July 17, 2017 – July 23, 2017
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News
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan is reported...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/10/17
The U.S. Army is developing a drone that moves like a flying squirrel. Credit: David McNally/U.S. Army
News
A U.S. drone strike in Somalia targeted members of al-Shabab. It is the second drone...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/24/17
June 19, 2017 – June 25, 2017
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In an interview with Robotics Tomorrow, Center for the Study of the Drone Co-Director Arthur Holland Michel discusses t...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/19/17
June 12, 2017 – June 18, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen reportedly killed two individuals suspected of being members of al-Qaeda. The strike targeted a vehicle in Shabwa province, one ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/12/17
June 5, 2017 – June 11, 2017
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At Washington D.C.’s WTOP radio, Center for the Study of the Drone co-director Dan Gettinger discusses the growing use...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/5/17
May 29, 2017 – June 4, 2017
News
A German court has thrown out a protest filed by U.S. drone maker General Atomics Aeronautical Systems over the German military’s decision to acquire the I...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/29/17
May 22, 2017 – May 28, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike reportedly killed three members of the Pakistani Taliban. According to the Associated Press, the strike targeted a compound in Khost provi...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/15/17
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 (EODMU5) Platoon 142 recover an unmanned underwater vehicle onto a Coastal Riverine Group 1 Detachment Guam MK VI patrol boat in the Pacif...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/8/17
May 1, 2017 – May 7, 2017
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News
The European Aviation Safety Association has propo...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/24/17
April 17, 2017 – April 23, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen reportedly killed four suspected members of al-Qaeda. According to Yemeni officials, the strike targeted al-Qaeda fighters in...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/17/17
April 10, 2017 – April 16, 2017
News
A drone strike in the Sinai reportedly killed one person. According to al-Jazeera, the strike targeted a house in Rafah, a town that borders the Gaza Stri...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/10/17
April 3, 2017 – April 9, 2017
Public Safety Drones
Police and first responder drones were once a sci-fi fantasy; now they are a reality, appearing with increasing frequency in cities and towns ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/27/17
March 20, 2017 – March 26, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed Qari Yasin, an al-Qaeda leader who was responsible for a 2008 attack on a hotel in Islamabad. The strike took pla...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/20/17
March 13, 2017 – March 19, 2017
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We spoke to Rolling Stone about the implications of recent advances in swarming drone technology for the future of warf...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/13/17
March 6, 2017 – March 12, 2017
News
Germany reportedly intends to acquire the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton high-altitude surveillance drone, according to a story in Sueddeutsche Zeitung. In 2...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/6/17
February 27, 2017 – March 5, 2017
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We spoke to The Daily Beast to help make sense of ISIL’s growing use of armed consumer drones in the conflict in Sy...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/20/17
February 13, 2017 – February 19, 2017
News
Telecommunications firm Verizon has acquired Skyward, a drone operations management company. Skyward develops software for drone operators to manage ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/13/17
February 6, 2017 – February 12, 2017
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Loitering munitions are a proliferating class of drones that double as precision attack weapons. These systems, wh...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/6/17
January 30, 2017 – February 5, 2017
News
Israel has reportedly eased export restrictions on military drones in order to boost the competitiveness of Israeli companies. According to an unnamed...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/30/17
January 23, 2017 – January 29, 2017
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A growing number of countries around the world are developing or acquiring unmanned aircraft systems. Today, the Ce...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/16/17
January 9, 2017 – January 15, 2017
News
Popular French hobby drone maker Parrot laid off 290 out of 840 workers after posting growing losses in recent months. Parrot lost $27.8 million in the ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/09/17
January 2, 2017 – January 8, 2017
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We are delighted to announce that we are collaborating with the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan on ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/02/17
December 26, 2016 – January 1, 2017
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Year in Review
2016 was many things to many p...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/19/16
December 12, 2016 – December 18, 2016
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/12/16
December 5, 2016 – December 11, 2016
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/5/16
The Weekly Drone Roundup is a newsletter from the Center for the Study of the Drone. It covers news, commentary, analysis and technology from the drone world....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/28/16
The Weekly Drone Roundup is a newsletter from the Center for the Study of the Drone. It covers news, commentary, analysis and technology from the drone world....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/21/16
November 14, 2016 – November 20, 2016
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In our ongoing effort to track drone deployments globally, we have made two new previously unreported discoveries...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/14/16
November 7, 2016 – November 13, 2016
News
President Obama has directed the Department of Defense to target the leadership of Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syria-based organization that has been linked t...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/31/16
October 24, 2016 – October 30, 2016
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Last year, we posted one of our regular “Need to Know” cheat sheets about the growing field of underwater drone...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/24/16
October 17, 2016 – October 23, 2016
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In their perennial bid to better understand the weather, scientists are increasingly turning to drones, from high-a...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/17/16
October 10, 2016 – October 16, 2016
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The U.S. president plays a key role in determining the country’s counterterrorism policies, including the use of ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/10/16
October 3, 2016 – October 9, 2016
News
A U.S. drone strike in Syria killed Abu al-Farai al-Masri, an Egyptian-born veteran of al-Qaeda and leader of Jabhat al-Nusra. According to a statement b...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/3/16
September 26, 2016 – October 2, 2016
News
A U.S. drone strike killed at least fifteen people in Afghanistan’s eastern Achin district. The United Nations reported that the individuals who di...
