FAA Looking to Register Drone Owners
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They aren’t rules yet, but the Federal Aviation Administration is recommending a simple registration system for anyone who owns an unmanned aircraft heavier than 250 grams, about half a pound, reports NPR.
Reuters reports on the positioning of Turkey and Russia in the wake of Turkey’s downing of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 within Turkish airspace. US Presidential candidates are weighing in on a no-fly zone in Syria in the wake of the shooting down of the Russian fighter jet, reports NPR.
All over France police are using recently decreed Emergency Powers to break down doors, conduct searches without warrants, aggressively question residents, haul suspects to police stations, and put others under house arrest, reports the New York Times.
Ibtimes.com reports, Australia has no plans to send combat troops to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State group, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in a national security statement outlining his approach to fight terror groups.
Pilot performance and an MV-22 Osprey’s own rotor wash contributed to its crash landing in a Hawaiian training accident May 2015 , according to the Marine’s accident investigation, reports Military.com. Two Marines were killed and most of the other 19 aboard injured.
Four crew members on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter died when their aircraft crashed during a training exercise at the Fort Hood Army base in central Texas, reports Reuters.com.
Breaking Defense reports on the British’s Strategic Defense Review that declares they will plug the gaping hole in their anti-submarine warfare capabilities by buying nine P-8s from Boeing and pledging to buy more F-35s.
A poll from the Kaiser Foundation finds 27 percent of Americans report that they either have been addicted to prescription painkillers or have a family member or close friend who has, reports Bloomberg Business.
Raytheon has delivered a hull-mounted sonar system for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program, reports IHS Jane’s 360.
The pair of Navy SEALs who drowned in a training pool at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in April were practicing holding their breath under water after explicitly being told not to do so by the pool manager, Pilotonline.com reports the Navy’s investigation.
