Raytheon Solipsys, a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) subsidiary, was awarded a $9 million contract to deliver and install its Zeus situational awareness and collaboration system for Air Force remotely piloted aircraft (RPA). The award responds to an urgent operational need requested by the Air Force. Zeus will be installed at 18 Air Combat Command, Air National Guard and Air...
On its way home, after setting out in April the X37 might be back overnight tonight. Making its landing at Vandenberg AFB. It will be the first ever autonomous re-entry and runway landing. “Space professionals from the 30th Space Wing will monitor the de-orbit and landing of the Air Force’s first X-37B, called the Orbital Test Vehicle 1 (OTV-1),”...
Tom York of the Sancho Bernando Patch writes:- Defense contactor Northrop Grumman, which employs more than 4,800 employees in the county, including 2,400 in Rancho Bernardo, is making headlines. The large public company placed big display ads in five newspapers, including The San Diego Union-Tribune, over the weekend seeking the public’s help in supporting the Global Hawk pilotless surveillance...
Japans ministry of defence has unveiled a new flying trash can, the Honeywell T-Hawk and AESIR Coanda craft prove the popularity of these types with the military and defence developers. We can’t see what advantage they have over large multicopters. The high energy requirements for this type of flight might just be the perfect fit for the smaller fuel...
Australia’s Heron Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have returned to flight after flying of all Heron UAVs was temporarily suspended for 24 hours on 1 November. Contractor MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), suspended flying its fleet of Heron aircraft worldwide temporarily as a precautionary measure, pending advice from the manufacturer, Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI), following a series of landing gear malfunctions. Bookmark...
Scott Fontaine Air Force Times More automation in unmanned aircraft is essential to counter the Air Force’s looming resource crunch but will likely limit operational flexibility, the director of the service’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft Task Force said. The demand for pilots, technicians, support personnel and data bandwidth will only increase as the Pentagon’s craving for more 24-hour obits continues,...
Off topic but something to be appreciated by all pilots that pass by. The folks at Jeppesen who create departure and arrival plates for airfields around the world have honoured Capt Sully Sullenberger with his own plate. No doubt this chart will be flown in many cockpits and grace the walls of flying club bars around the world. Bookmark...
I’m not sure if thats the intended name or not, but thats whats being used. It represents the largest platform so far to be offered for sale from China, a country that’s big enough to support a UAS industry all on its own. Many people are being stung with low quality airframes and autopilots that seem to come out every other...
From Eureka the picture kindy supplied by Dr Amprikidis. The EUREKA E! 3931 ASARP project has developed a small and cheap-to-build unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) intended to cut the cost of maritime search-and-rescue missions and reduce risks to material and human lives. The seaplane uses shape-changing technology to improve flight stability, enabling the plane to fly in severe weather conditions....
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