BANGALORE: The first flight test of indigenously developed UAV Rustom-2, set to be used solely for defence purposes, would take place in February 2014, a top Aeronautical Development Establishment official said today. “Designing of Rustom-2 has been completed, purchase orders have been placed and we are on schedule to fly for the first time in February 2014,”ADE Director P S Krishnan told reporters. He...
These are compiled segments of the first test-flights of the improved version of the Star-Lite UAV helicopter, now designated as the Heavy-Lift SVU200, designed and built by Mr. Dennis Fetters with help from Mr. James Luo and Mr. David Deng working for the Hunan Sunward Science and Technology Company in Hunan Changsha China. To our knowledge, this is the...
This looks mighty like a very simple RC model enthusiasts flight, but people do get hot and bothered about these things. The story was picked up by Joshua Kucera at Eurasianet Stephen Trimble over at flight has an opinion, I also think it probably is Chinese, but something from HobbyKing rather than the secret service. There is video here http://www.ktk.kz/ru/news/video/2012/02/17/16156 From KTK: The...
By Saira SyedBusiness reporter, BBC News, Singapore As geo-political tensions remain, the demand for drones is set to sky-rocket in Asia, and that means new players will battle with industry giants for market share. “We’ve got quite a bit of interest from Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia, India,” says Bill Schaefer from Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, a dominant player in...
Times of India VISAKHAPATNAM: An Indian Navy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed into a hill at Ganesh Nagar near Gajuwaka RTC depot on Thursday afternoon with residents in the area which is close to Eastern Naval Command (ENC) grateful that a major tragedy had been averted. Several factories, like HPCL, Coromandel and Zinc are located in the vicinity but no loss...
Korean Air and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute plan to develop the world’s first small-scale unmanned tiltrotor aircraft by 2013, the two companies announced Monday. The envisioned aircraft, dubbed “TR-6X,” will be about 60 percent the size of the first unmanned aerial vehicle unveiled in November by the state-run aerospace think tank, which flies like a plane but tilts...
From Gulf News Khalil Al Beloushi, 37, is living proof that it is never too late to build a better future. Having dropped out of secondary school to take up government employment, the father of four recently made a decision to get an education — and get one he did. Al Beloushi recently finished work on one of the...
Written and put together by Ali Parvazi I will add some commentary about the article. First, I’d like to thank Ali for giving us this glimpse into the academic capabilities of the Iranian engineering student community. We in the west have such a limited perspective on what some countries are doing in this technology field and this piece affords us an opportunity to see things...
Chethan Kumar, Bangalore, Feb 3 2012,DHNS Fighter squadrons may be trimmed to meet need Increasing the dependence on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) like former Air Chief P.V. Naik terms, is not an “out of the box” concept for the Indian Air Force (IAF) anymore. In what would be a significant move once it comes...
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), that awed viewers in the Bollywood hit ”3 Idiots”, has been officially inducted into the paramilitary forces. The Border Security Force (BSF) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) are using the drone, titled ‘Netra’, in counter-insurgency operations. The autonomous UAV for surveillance and reconnaissance was inducted into the paramilitary forces last month while...
