Avionics

A predator drone belonging to the U.S. military crashed in a field after taking off from the ?ncirlik Air Base in the southern province of Adana early on Feb. 3.

Internet giant Alphabet Inc , the new holding company for Google, expects to begin delivering packages to consumers via drones sometime in 2017, the executive in charge of its drone effort said on Nov 2.

The Obama administration said on Oct. 19 that it would require drone owners to register their unmanned aircraft as part of an effort to curtail rogue drone flights that pose a danger to commercial aircraft and crowded public venues. 

Turkish Air Force jets have shot down an unidentified drone in the country's air space near the border with Syria on Friday, Turkey's General Staff has announced.

Turkey’s military said it shot down an unmanned aircraft on the Syrian border on Friday.

The nationality of the craft is unknown. It had violated Turkish airspace before it was warned and then shot down, the military said.

An unauthorized octocopter drone flying over An?tkabir during the Victory Day celebrations caused panic while the army considered shooting down the drone, daily Hürriyet online has reported. 

The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), Turkey's defense procurement agency, said in a statement on Aug. 21 that it had launched a process to buy 15 drones from the state Turkish Aerospace Industry (TAI) and 15 from Istanbul-based developer Baykar Makine, for use by police forces. Twelve of the newly purchased drones are considered "urgent."

While the rest of Europe is gripped in the throes of the “Greece crisis saga”, EU-less and free trade-happy Switzerland — a paradigm of a vibrant, well-run rule-of-law democracy — is testing … drones as mail delivery vehicles!

Accrding to BusinessInsider, Swiss Post is currently testing drones for delivery, a company stated revealed.

Italy, France and Germany agreed on May 18 to develop a European drone program for reconnaissance and surveillance, seeking to inject momentum into a proposal first considered in 2013 to reduce reliance on U.S. and Israeli technology. 

An unmanned drone, carrying radioactive materials was spotted on the roof of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to local Japanese media.

The radioactive material quantity, however, was “small” and “not harmful” to humans, according to the same reports.