#drones

An electric helicopter with multiple rotors took its first flight in conventional air traffic near Paris on Thursday as it prepares for commercial flights from 2024. The Volocopter test aircraft, which ...

Civil defence said on Friday that it had used droned to help the police find a lost person in the Limassol area overnight. According to an announcement, police alerted them ...

The United States said on Thursday that Iranian military trainers were in Crimea helping Russian forces operate Iranian-made drones to attack targets in Ukraine, adding an alarming strand to a ...

By Toby Walsh You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of ...

The use of drones by the forestry department is set to be stepped up further after their introduction in August to monitor areas at the risk of fire, its head ...

The forestry department on Monday signed an agreement for the provision of drones that will make a crucial addition to strengthen its existing fire management system. The agreement was signed ...

The transport ministry is looking into ways of modernising the Post Office by incorporating drone technology in its arsenal as an alternative way of delivering parcels the transport minister said ...

The increasing use of drones to fight fires was underlined on Friday by the Cyprus Institute, whose Unmanned Systems Research Laboratory (USRL) spotted a fire. One of the lab’s ...

The fire service has received a donation of two state-of-the-art drones worth more than €40,000, which are expected to boost firefighting capabilities, it was announced on Wednesday. The CEO of Hellenic ...

The forestry department on Friday said the National Guard would start assisting in the forest monitoring programme aimed at preventing fires. According to the forestry department the programme concerns drone ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that a Turkish drone base was operating in the north, citing the need for readiness in case of attacks in the region, reports said. ...

French data privacy watchdog CNIL condemned the Interior Ministry for the unlawful use of drones to oversee demonstrations and make sure people were respecting the COVID-19 lockdown. In a decision ...

A drug-drone has stirred the public’s imagination and caught the drug squad Ykan off guard with concerns that new drug smuggling methods are being used. Speaking to CyBC TV ...