Drones

The LAPD aircraft, which was responding to reports of a burglary in Hollywood, was forced to make an emergency landing after the mid-air crash involving an unmanned aerial vehicle.

The leading drone powers—Washington and Beijing—should be watching Azerbaijan and Armenia and learning about how drone swarms and loitering munitions work best.

The photo was originally snapped in 2015, but generated a lot of fanfare on social media on Tuesday.

The individual killed in the Thursday drone strike was allegedly attempting to plant explosive devices alongside a Somali road.

Golden Valley Police Department officers confronted visitors at a beach, prepared to issue citations for violating indecent exposure laws.

"Bezos sees a future where packages will be delivered by self-driving vans, small bots rolling through neighborhoods and drones buzzing to their destinations."

In April, China-based technology company DJI announced it had donated 100 drones to law enforcement agencies across the United States to help them "confront the coronavirus."

A French photographer won the first Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2020 with a photograph of seals taken by drone.

The new vehicle will have a range of around 3,450 miles.

In the not-so-distant future, hundreds of unmanned drones and on-the-ground rovers could swoop into an area of interest and spew crucial data to human military operators, researchers say.

Fox hosts Geraldo Rivera and Brian Kilmeade debated whether Trump's Iran drone strike was necessary on Friday morning.

Earth loses 13 billion trees per year but regains less than half.

An unexplained band of drones has been spotted repeatedly patrolling the skies of Colorado at night over the last week, according to The Denver Post.

"The smuggling of drugs into the state prison is an ongoing battle," Sheriff W.E. Bozeman of Georgia's Mitchell County said in a press release.

"With the future of retail being experiential, we recognize and have witnessed the amazing experience it is for our customers to have a drone deliver their orders," business owner Tom Raub told Newsweek of his company's collaboration with Wing.

The Houthis have claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack, but the U.S. has suggested that Iran is ultimately to blame.

"I was freaking out. I was like, 'He has no idea there's a shark right next to them," said photographer Matt Larmand.

The Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B, can reach speeds of up to 640 miles per hour and can travel up to 3,100 miles.

"We're not convinced that it was authorized at the highest levels," said the vice president.

"Enough is enough. Chao is allowing corporations to run roughshod over American safety," said Lizzy Price, spokesperson for Restore Public Trust.

So-called "loitering munitions" can wait for a target to emerge for hours at a time.

Outbound flights have been grounded and incoming planes diverted to land at other airports.

While the U.S. is trying to limit deadly drone proliferation overseas, Beijing has fewer scruples about exporting its unmanned weapons.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said "terrorist groups could easily export their battlefield experiences to use weaponized [unmanned aircraft systems] outside the conflict zone."

"Can they hear the bombs coming? We should make the bombs silent so they can't get away," Trump said, according to a new book.

From mass yoga sessions to heart-shaped Croatian islands, Hajj pilgrims and Dutch tulip fields.

U.S. helicopters and drones buzzed overhead as Afghan soldiers attempted to force militants out of the eastern city of Ghazni.

Since 1990, bird collisions with aircraft have cost the aviation industry $1.2 billion in damages.

Following the attack, the Venezuelan leader accused right-wing groups and pointed fingers at Colombia. He also suggested that Venezuelans living in the U.S. were involved.

From revealing hidden patterns in the landscape to showing how tiny and fragile the human figure really is, these are the most beautiful drone photos of the year.