VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Officials say they’ll test unmanned aerial vehicles at a nature reserve on Russia’s Pacific coast this summer to monitor wildlife and crack down on poachers. “UAVs are silent and can fly at a very low altitude to produce high-resolution imagery and detect poachers, their boats and vehicles,” Alexandra Filatkina, deputy director for development at the Kronotsky nature...
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The list of contestants who have qualified for the second round of the Flying Drone Contest organized by CROC has been finalized, with 150 teams and 87 individuals passing the first checkpoint. There will be three more checkpoints: in March, May, and July, with the final to take place in August 2013. The first prize is 1 million Rubles*....
CROC is running a Flying Drone Contest which requires contestants to demonstrate an unmanned autonomous flying drone (copter) which must successfully complete contest tasks. The first prize is 1 million Rubles**. Contest milestones are in January, March, May and June 2013; the finals will be held in August 2013. Applications were closed on November 15, 2012. Registered contestants include...
Russia’s Ural Works of Civil Aviation (UZGA) has performed the first flight of a locally-assembled Israel Aerospace Industries Searcher II unmanned air vehicle. During flight tests performed from Yekaterinburg in early December 2012, the type operated “smoothly” despite operations being performed with a ground temperature of about -30˚C (-22˚F), the Oboronprom group company says. Bookmark It Hide Sites
MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Monday a tender for research on a potential sensor system for a micro-unmanned air vehicle (UAV) project, according to an order posted on the government’s state procurement portal. Officials have allocated about 7 million rubles (about $230,000) for the project, aimed at developing a 200-gram (6.5...
MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s airborne forces (VDV) have started state acceptance trials of the new Iskatel (Searcher) lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle system, the system’s makers said on Wednesday. “The VDV’s 106th division has started testing the portable Iskatel UAV system made by the Popov Omsk Radio Factory,” said Popov’s Alexei Topekhin. “The tests will include trial...
ZHUHAI, November 13 (RIA Novosti) – Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi is to focus on creating reconnaissance and strike unmanned air vehicles (UAV) in the near future, United Aircraft Corporation President Mikhail Pogosyan said at the Zhuhai Airshow China exhibition on Tuesday. Sukhoi, which has historically designed fighter and ground attack aircraft but now also builds some civil aircraft, is...
Oh look those chaps have a pair of Garmin Rino’s extra tracking perhaps? If you had one near the exercise area might you see the IRKUT in flight? You can tell they are Rino’s and not a 60 series because of the extra antenna (Ed) The Kazakh Ministry of Defense (MoD) will purchase 10 Irkut-10 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft systems...
Moscow, June 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Moscow’s Forest and Environment Protection Department will use unmanned air vehicles (UAV) systems to patrol the forested areas in the city boundaries, according to a spokesman. “Moscow will use UAVs for patrolling the forests and detecting fires in the forest belt around the city,” the spokesman said. The department will use the small...
