Vienna, 30 April 2012 Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER® S-100 has taken a further step in consolidating its strong maritime position by being the first UAS (Unmanned Air System) to ever fly from an Italian Navy ship. The S-100 was flown from the ITS Bersagliere, a Soldati Class frigate and successfully carried out a number of missions for observers from the Italian Navy. From the Italian...
Last spring, GE broke ground on a $50 million aviation research center at the University of Daytonin Ohio. When finished next year, the center’s 200 engineers, technologists, and researchers will work on advanced electric power systems for next generation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as “drones,” including classified UAVs as large as a fighter jet. GE Aviation, which is spending another $17...
by CHRIS POCOCK General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has revealed two options to extend the endurance of the MQ-9 Reaper UAV, also known as the Predator B. Wing-mounted fuel tanks and a 22-foot wing extension could be installed in the field in the “near term,” according to the company. They would complement the modified main landing gear, announced previously, that...
BRUSSELS, Belgium — As part of a sustained parliamentary debate on the impact of drone technology, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly released a new draft report, entitled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges for the Alliance. The demand for drones continues to grow, their operational advantages having once again been highlighted during the 2011 air campaign over Libya. And despite...
An interesting problem, how would you drop a relatively lightweight non lethal dumb object from a UA very precisely. How would it look if a rubber ball arrived from nowhere and knocked out the person stood next to you! We see a sports career in the future of this UAS. Another entry in the UAS Got Talent tab Right...
By Roxana Tiron and Tony Capaccio Bloomberg The Pentagon’s plan to retire one version of Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC)’s Global Hawk drone would be blocked under a U.S. House panel’s defense legislation. The House Armed Services subcommittee on air and land forces would require that the secretary of the Air Force take “all actions necessary” to keep the so-called Global Hawk Block...
The company has completed the development of its rotary wing UAV and the land version is now ready to enter into service. Throughout 2012, this system will complete the corresponding integration and operation tests on ships The multinational has also presented the latest version of the Mini-UAV MANTIS at UNVEX’12 Indra’s new UAV, the Pelicano helicopter, performed a test flight...
PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 24 April 2012. Engineers from the Northrop Grumman Corp. Aerospace Systems sector in San Diego will develop and build two unmanned helicopters, as well as six MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of the vertical take-off and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (VTUAV) endurance upgrade rapid deployment capability, under terms of a potential $262.3 million contract...
Following an extensive seven-month analysis of data collected from the Aug. 11, 2011, second flight of DARPA’s Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2), an independent engineering review board (ERB) investigating the cause of a flight anomaly completed its report. The findings of the ERB validated the vehicle’s aerodynamic design and uncovered new information regarding the thermal material properties of the vehicle....
Military.com|by Michael Hoffman The Air Force should continue giving flight pay to the pilots and sensor operators who never leave the ground or risk retention shortfalls, a report recommends. Pilots of traditional manned aircraft howled when the Air Force announced in 2009 that it would issue incentive pay to pilots and sensor operators of the service’s unmanned aircraft fleet,...
