After over one year of positive research and experimental tests, the UNOSAT team has acquired its first Mini-UAV in late 2011 and placed orders for a second unit in 2012, while a third unit is planned for 2013. Mini-UAV, or “unmanned aerial vehicle”, are very light and easy-to-fly electric planes carrying digital cameras and able to fly for a...
Lockheed Martin may have just fired the starting gun on sUAS autopilot maker acquisitions. Well done the Procerus team! Lockheed Martin is acquiring Procerus Technologies, maker of autopilot, targeting, and payload technologies for micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based in Orem, Utah. Procerus customers include domestic and international governments, as well as industry and academic institutions. The company’s Kestrel autopilot system, among the...
UAV Factory would like to present the second generation of the portable ground control station for the unmanned aircraft vehicles. UAV Factory’s off-the-shelf portable Ground Control Station (GCS) is a flexible and universal solution for controlling unmanned vehicles and payloads. By using a unique, modular electronics compartment (MEC), application specific hardware can be quickly installed. This flexibility allows the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL, Jan 17, 2012 World Surveillance Group Inc. a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) and related technologies, announced today that the Company has completed initial demonstrations of its Argus One UAV to the U.S. Department of Defense (“DoD”) at the U.S. Department of Energy Nevada Test Site (“N2S2″). The Argus One flight exercises were sponsored...
Iranian State radio stated on Tuesday that it will send a model of the Beast of Kandahar that dropped into their lap last month. They will also create 70,000 copies of the model to be sold in Iran for around $4 or 70,000 rials. The miniature of the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone will be sent to the Obama administration...
Registration is taking place for the event in Eindhoven, take advantage of an early bird discount. € 145 (Deadline: 12 February 2012), register now Unmanned Aircraft Systems are becoming increasingly important for non-military applications such as aerial photography, GEO-information, agricultural remote sensing and application, pipeline and power line surveillance, fisheries and wildlife monitoring, fire-fighting, weather and climate studies, security, law...
Thales and Aerovisión have given a real flight demonstration of the UAV Fulmar (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) for the European Agency Frontex, the organism in charge of coordinating the border control operations of the European Union member states. Fulmar is a wholly Spanish project that is a global solution that uses the Maritime Surveillance Systems of ThalesGroup. These systems supply...
CLMax Engineering and Procerus Technologies (www.procerus.com) have worked together to integrate Procerus’ closed loop vision-based terminal guidance technologies, OnPoint Onboard (TM), into the Piranha Micro Air Vehicle. The combined system provides users a method to rapidly deploy and precisely deliver lethal and non lethal payloads within one meter of a selected target. Successful engagements have been completed in high...
The Mesa County Sheriff’s Department has purchased a small drone aircraft for $14,000 to use in investigations and in search and rescue operations. Sheriff’s officers demonstrated the 4-foot-long, 9-pound vehicle Friday. The plane can stay airborne for an hour, fly at an altitude of 400 feet and send video and infrared images to ground controllers. “If we get the...
Probably by this summer, the Army will be floating a new idea past the troops for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Not a program of record, but something the Army expects to test in Afghanistan this summer, the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle. It’s a hybrid air vehicle — like a blimp — that can carry multiple ISR payloads for more...
