“New trials set to help unlock drone deliveries and inspections in the UK”
https://www.caa.co.uk/newsroom/news/...ons-in-the-uk/
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NPAS - In 2021, the National Police Air Service established its Futures & Innovation Team. The team's objectives were to investigate Beyond Visual Line of Sight capabilities and its potential adoption as part of a blended fleet.
NPAS’s ambition is to fly an uncrewed aircraft, beyond visual line of sight, over a six month period, in an environment that is representative of where NPAS crewed aircraft would be tasked. It will look to test, and verify, not only the payload capabilities, which are identical to the performance of our crewed aircraft, but also validate the onboard DAA capabilities. This will allow NPAS to understand better what future air support capabilities it could adopt.”