C-ASTRAL Ltd.(www.c-astral.com), the Slovenian UAS manufacturer has flown an 80 minute mapping mission at 4150m ASL in support of the mining operations in one of the world’s highest mines, the Los Pelambres complex in the Chillean Andes. A precise DTM of the current mining area was created during the mission. This record flight caps a 10 day series of...
Advanced Defense Technologies (ADTI) recently declared that its joint venture partner Halberd, provider of short- as well as long-range unmanned aircraft has partnered with the Company to achieve sales contracts for Sense and Avoid- enabled drones and UAVs. ADTI and Halberd foresee the dependence of large-scale proliferation of drones and UAV implementation on adequate sense, avoidance, and detect capabilities....
By LOLITA C. BALDOR The Associated Press WASHINGTON — At the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, becoming a fighter pilot is still a hotly coveted goal. But slowly, a culture change is taking hold. Initially snubbed as second-class pilot-wannabes, the airmen who remotely control America’s arsenal of lethal drones are gaining stature and securing a permanent place in...
LynuxWorks, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, will demonstrate its LynxOS-178 v 2.2.2 safety-critical real-time operating system (RTOS) with API support of the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) technical standard along with its industry-leading LynxSecure separation kernel and hypervisor during the AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America conference in Las Vegas from August 7-9 (booth #2921). Used...
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) completed a successful warhead and guidance system test of its Pyros (TM) small tactical munition. The end-to-end test validated the weapon’s guidance modes (semi-active laser and global positioning system), its height-of-burst sensor, electronic safe and arm device, and multi-effects warhead. “All systems functioned perfectly,” said Tom Bussing, vice president of Advanced Missile Systems for Raytheon Missile Systems....
UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) has received a contract from AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems to supply Cloud Cap Technology autopilots, stabilized camera payloads, ground station software components and flight management software from its business in Hood River, Ore. These will be utilized for AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ expeditionary Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System...
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mc.com), a trusted provider of commercially developed application-ready ISR and EW subsystems for defense prime contractors, announced it received an initial order from a leading defense prime contractor to design an optimized high performance processing subsystem based on commercially developed OpenVPX Intel-server class building blocks. The new design, based on open industry standards,...
The recent successful first fully autonomous takeoff and landing test flight of the Aurora Flight Sciences Centaur optionally piloted twin-engine aircraft showcased the autopilot capabilities of the Rockwell Collins Athena 411 control system. “The successful flight test marks the first time that an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) autopilot has been flown in an optionally piloted aircraft,” said Dave Schreck,...
FreeWave Technologies, (http://www.freewave.com), manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced that it has logged more than 1.3 million combat hours with two major OEMs. Both organizations, AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (www.aaicorp.com) and Insitu (www.insitu.com), offer two of the country’s most trusted and relied upon Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) military...
The Boeing Unmanned Little Bird H-6U successfully performed 14 autonomous takeoffs and landings from a ship during flight tests in July, a significant milestone for a medium-size vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned airborne system (UAS). For the tests, conducted from a private ship off the coast of Florida, Boeing integrated a commercial-off-the-shelf takeoff-and-landing system with Unmanned Little Bird’s automated flight control system....
