One of the highlights of Brazil’s Operation Agate is the operational premiere of the Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPV) Hermes 450. This unmanned aerial vehicle has already generated results: During the operation, A-29 Super Tucano fighters destroyed a clandestine runway after thorough reconnaissance work by the RQ-450, the new name of the RPV operated by the Brazilian Air Force. In...
Waterloo, CANADA – While NATO countries fly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) high above Libya, none of these UAVs, or the vital intelligence they provide, was available to the Libyans fighting to free their country – they were fighting blind. So, they got one of their own. It can now be disclosed that the Libyan rebels have been using the Aeryon...
Translation from the Swedish Armed Forces web site thanks to UAV Grabben for sending the link An unmanned reconnaissance craft-type eagle had engine failure and forced an emergency landing near the town of Balkh at six o’clock, local time, on Sunday morning. At the emergency landing craft were damaged. The unmanned reconnaissance craft would support the soldiers of one of the...
These reports keep coming out of Somalia but no evidence to back them up. An unmanned aerial vehicle, suspected to belong to the United States, has crashed in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The aircraft crashed into a house in the city centre on Friday, according to the Associated Press. VOA news was told that the house was near the...
DRS Defense Solutions, a developer of advanced electronic systems, has been contracted by the U.S. Navy’s Fleet & Industrial Supply (FISC) in Norfolk to provide counter-adversary training for operators of U.S. unmanned aerial systems. DRS said its Sentry UAS aircraft is to be used in two service missions, including at the Joint Unmanned Aircraft System Center of Excellence (JUAS...
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is scheduled to publish the first draft of regulatory proposals under Part 23 standards for sense-and-avoid systems and autonomous decision-making by UAS in civil airspace. This could lead to the adoption of the new standards within 18 months, said Andrew Lucas, managing director of autonomous software company AOS and a member of the...
India is planning to develop solar-powered unmanned flying machines with the capability of remaining airborne for at least a month in all weather conditions. “We are looking forward to develop solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a long range and endurance capability as we plan to diversify our expertise in UAV technology,” DRDO spokesperson Ravi Gupta told PTI here....
IBTime reports:- The hacker collective Anonymous has released a fresh batch of data taken from Vanguard Defense Industries, a Pentagon and FBI contractor. The data release was revealed via a post ontor2web.org and later publicised on the group’sAnonymousIRC Twitter account. In it the group claimed to have released “1GB of private emails and documents belonging to Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI).” Anonymous later said the e-mails belong to the...
Unlike AUVSI 2011 Washington where no sUAS flying took outdoors as regulations don’t permit it the MAKS show in Russia had an airframe completing security flights around the event. From 15th to 21st August ZALA AERO GROUP demonstrated its latest development UAS ZALA 421-16E at MAKS airshow in conjunction with manned aviation. ZALA AERO GROUP revealed its latest fixed wing UAS ZALA...
Avweek has confirmed what we have heard from a couple of sources. Only the official report will tell what really happened. Somebody must have been watching this unfold on radar though and could have given avoiding action to either party. Investigation is under way, but “the was where it was supposed to be, doing what it was supposed...
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 19 — Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,999,698) developed by Richard E. Annati, Albuquerque, N.M., and David E. Ekhaguere, Albuquerque, N.M., for an “anti-collision lighting systems and methods for a micro aerial vehicle.” The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for anti-collision...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may be flying over America’s heartland soon to help farmers increase production, improve protection and better manage their crops through the early detection of diseases, infestations and other conditions affecting optimal crop production. UAI International of Grand Forks, N.D., UAVision of Dayton, Ohio, and the University of Dayton-led Institute for the Development and Commercialization of...
Bangalore, Aug 18 Public sector defence lab, National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) today said it is seeking private partners to sell Micro-Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). “We want private partnerships for many of our projects. In fact we haven”t got any private partner to commercialise Hansa, a light passenger aircraft,” NAL Director A R Upadhya told reporters here. “Nevertheless, the Mahindra Group has...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2011 – Boeing announced the successful autonomous communications and operation of dissimilar unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in flight tests over the rugged terrain of eastern Oregon. The July 7-10 mission used two ScanEagles manufactured by Boeing subsidiary Insitu and one Procerus Unicorn from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). The UAVs communicated using a Mobile...
On first test flight, UAV flies for 10 hours powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, setting new benchmarks for small renewable energy unmanned aircraft. Aug 12, 2011 – Drummondville, Quebec. Robota LLC demonstrated a 10hour and 4 minute flight of its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle platform namedRobosoar. The utlra-efficient UAV is designed to be man-portable, operated by a single person and is capable...
WASHINGTON(Aug. 17, 2011)– Rockwell Collins today announced its Athena®Micro INS inertial navigation system and global positioning system (INS/GPS) guided the first flight of Aerovel’s Flexrotor vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). During the first flight, the Flexrotor successfully demonstrated a transition from hover to wing-borne cruise. The Flexrotor design provides the convenience of VTOL with a...
SAN DIEGO, Aug 17, 2011 The Northrop Grumman Corporation -built MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff Unmanned Aerial Vehicle was credited with providing critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) support to special operations forces and U.S. Navy anti-piracy actions during the system’s second at-sea deployment. Two Fire Scout air vehicles were deployed aboard the USS Halyburton (FFG 40) at the beginning...
Lockheed Martin has developed a ruggedized version of its Stalker Unmanned Air System (UAS), called the Stalker eXtreme Endurance (XE) UAS. The Stalker XE system quadruples Stalker’s flight endurance to eight-plus hours without impacting the mobility of the unmanned system or the flexibility of its payload capabilities. “Missions requiring real time eyes-on a situation for extended periods of time,...
World Surveillance Group Inc, a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) and related technologies, announced today that the Company has confirmed the schedule for the first round of flight testing of its Argus One UAV at the U.S. Army’s proving ground facilities in Yuma, Arizona. The flight exercises, which are focused on the aerodynamic and free flight maneuvering...
Raytheon has completed laboratory integration and testing of its Small Tactical Munition Phase II configuration, setting the stage for flight tests later this year. STM Phase II is a new 12-pound, 21.5-inch long, precision-guided, gravity-dropped bomb specifically designed for employment from manned and unmanned aircraft systems, and is the smallest air-launched weapon in the Raytheon portfolio. “STM Phase II was...
Infrared systems developer FLIR Systems (NASDAQ: FLIR; Portland, OR, USA) reports that it has delivered more than 11,000 infrared (IR) camera cores into the unmanned vehicle market. FLIR cites “increased popularity of unmanned aerial and ground vehicles” as the motivation to bring three new IR camera cores to market, which are debuting at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America event this week (Aug. 16-19,...
Update 19/8/11 Fingers being pointed at the C130 crew probably best to wait for the accident report before commenting, it takes two to tango and in this case a controller as well. Reports earlier today left us wondering how the C130 fared, looks like they must have had quite a time making a safe landing. Lots of what if’s here....
WASHINGTON, August 16th, 2011 — The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $47 million contract to develop, demonstrate and deliver autonomous technologies for unmanned air systems in support of in-theater unmanned cargo resupply missions. Under the contract, Lockheed Martin and Kaman Aerospace will demonstrate intelligent autonomous technologies for unmanned aerial systems using the K-MAX helicopter platform. The Army’s...
GE Intelligent Platforms today announced the daq8580 rugged streaming network appliance at AUVSI (Washington DC, August 16 — 19). Designed in response to the growing requirement for unmanned vehicles to capture, process and transmit increasing quantities of video information at increasing resolutions, the daq8580 is a complete, standalone, application-ready solution that delivers flexibility, high performance and excellent cost-effectiveness. The...
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Aug. 16, 2011 – Boeing today announced it has successfully demonstrated the company’s newest narrowband communications relay aboard two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) — an Insitu ScanEagle and a portable AeroVironment Puma All Environment (AE). The relay was designed to meet the needs of small distributed forces operating in areas where line-of-sight communications are not possible. It...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2011 AUVSI, Booth #738 — FreeWave Technologies, manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced its radios for government and defense applications have logged more than one million hours of flight time since the company began shipping its first military radio in 1997. The one million milestone...
Update:- Images of the damaged C130 21:47 16/8 By NATHAN HODGE An Air Force cargo aircraft collided with a drone in Afghanistan, a potentially serious mishap that underscores how crowded the skies can be over the combat zone. Air Force Capt. Justin Brockhoff, a spokesman for the military in Afghanistan, confirmed that the C-130 cargo plane was forced to make an...
