SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass.—-Protonex Technology Corporation (LSE: AIM: PTX and PTXU), a leading provider of advanced fuel cell power systems for portable, remote and mobile applications, today announces that it will develop a robust, deployable pre-production fuel cell power system, designed for powering a small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will be capable of extended flight duration and mission endurance. This...
Russian domestically built unmanned aerial vehicles have completed a series of tests, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Monday. The tests were carried out in Nizhny Novgorod Region in central Russia and were observed by a special military commission led by Col. Gen. Alexander Postnikov, chief commander of the Ground Forces. Domestic UAV manufacturers were found to have made...
Agency reports have suggested that DRDO has begun working on unmanned combat air vehicles for a possible procurement by the Indian Air Force. Press Trust of India has quoted a senior DRDO official saying that work for the UCAV is in parallel progress in labs across the country. The following quotes are attributed to P.S. Subramanyan, Project Director of...
Hong Kong based Christian Listl and Conrad Electronics have created a stabilized HD camera in a box solution that monitors some flight parameters and the position at which images are taken onboard. They plan real time HD transmission and gyro stabilization at a later date. Its a tidy,quick and light way to add GPS referenced images to UAS projects. sUAS...
Russia continues to impress the Independent Development Laboratory especially so. In business since1996 with a short break in 2005 due to a lack of funds the team have 14 years of experience behind them and it shows. The focus of their early years was the development of telemetry and high-speed data transmission systems. Since 1999 they have been working on development...
The University of Colorado recently completed an option agreement with Boulder-based Tigon EnerTec Inc. for CU technology enabling efficient management of hybrid engines in aircraft. Conventional airplanes employ an internal combustion engine that is sized for the high-power requirements of takeoff and climbing. However, most of a typical flight is conducted at lower-power cruising speeds, during which time the larger...
Insitu have announced its NightEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) is now fully integrated into combat operations after successfully completing fielding of an upgraded mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imager payload. Insitu responded to an urgent, mission-critical request to field the advanced MWIR imager, which provides even greater nighttime vision for the warfighter. The new sensors were rapidly fielded through an in-theater upgrade kit...
Boeing has announced that it has won funding to the tune of $89 million from DARPA to develop its Solar Eagle UAV. Solar power is a hot topic, no pun intended. QinetiQs Zephyr flew for 14 days and 22 hours earlier this year. Sources have told us that it could have gone much longer. Boeing was chosen over an offering...
Blurring the borders between missile and UAS this airframe aims to hurry up and wait for something to happen. Expect to see lots of these making news in 2011. Many of the primary players involved are all based close to each other in Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire is the UKs area 51 really in the Chilterns? The Fire Shadow is a low...
Christopher P. Cavas – Staff writer for Navy news :- Flights of the MQ-8B Fire Scout, a small, unmanned helicopter the Navy is testing to operate from its warships, will resume Sept. 20, the Navy announced late Thursday. The flights will end a period where the drones were grounded after operators lost control of one on Aug. 2 and...
