FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that it has teamed with Sonardyne International Ltd on a substantial multi-million dollar project in the United Arab Emirates. The companies, with FLIR as the project leader, will provide a commercial-off-the shelf (COTS), integrated perimeter and coastal protection solution for a key coastal facility. The installed CommandSpace solution will provide multi-dimensional, wide area surveillance...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Ukrspecexport, a Ukrainian state-owned company based in Kiev, debuted a tube-launched unmanned aerial vehicle here at the IDEX show. The five-kilogram Sokil-2 UAV is designed to be launched from combat vehicles that are also equipped with anti-tank missiles, explained Yaroslava Zhuraved, senior foreign relations and marketing specialist at the company. It is fully...
By Robert Hall BBC News In a nondescript building on the Southampton University campus, is a wind tunnel once used to develop the pioneering aircraft which defended Britain during the Second World War. Clambering up a staircase to the control room I pass a large painting of a Spitfire, and a plaque commemorating Southampton’s links with its designer R...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. BOSH Global Services (BOSH) has been awarded a $2.2 million one-year contract (with the option for a second year) to provide Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) training to United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) cadets. This training, which will incorporate AAI’s Aerosonde® Mark 4.7 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), familiarizes and orients future Air Force officers in unmanned...
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Feb. 22, 2011 AMPAC-ISP CORP., American Pacific Corporation’s (Nasdaq: APFC) wholly-owned In-Space Propulsion subsidiary (AMPAC-ISP or AMPAC In-Space Propulsion), is producing bipropellant thrusters for the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle under contract to Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems. These engines provide vernier reaction control for the spacecraft, and are designed in varied configurations to match the...
Written by Leon Engelbrecht Defence Web The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has awarded Denel Dynamics a US$6.3 million (R45.2 million) contract for “engines for the Seeker II” unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A company official says the order is a “regular and routine spares & maintenance award to ensure a continued high level of service availability”. The UAE Air Force...
Trident Systems, Inc.*, Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $49,479,041 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the developmental engineering, prototyping, and providing limited quantity items in support of the Special Surveillance Program in support of the Navy and other Department of Defense and government agencies. This is a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract under topics SC05, OSD07-106, and N-01-136. The...
Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) announces the commissioning of a VICON Motion Capture System (MCS) in its Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) Development Laboratory. PSI will use the system to study insect flight dynamics and to improve autonomous control of MAVs. The VICON MCS will allow PSI engineers and scientists to apply knowledge gained through insect observation to rapidly develop bio-inspired...
The Jerusalem Post reveals an interesting new Chinnock like design from IAI Defense minister praises quality of IAI’s products, mentions need for Israel to retain its military superiority amid regional unrest. At first sight it looks like a toy model of a Chinook helicopter, the twin engine, tandem rotor helicopter used by the United States Army. It is however...
Hands up all those that remember the Cyber Aerospace rogallo based platforms, looks like its back. Vought who bought Cyber Aerospace early 2010 seem to have turned into ALAS Defense Systems and are ready to fly again. ALAS Defense Systems, Inc. , today announced that it began scheduling live demonstrations for early March of its UAV and Service to...
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that the company has completed a fee-for-service operation on behalf of the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren Division. NSWC Dahlgren has been chartered to conduct UAV flights in conjunction with tests of various types of ground radars and capture...
The second Orbital Test Vehicle, the U.S. military’s secretive mini space shuttle, arrived at the Atlas 5 rocket’s assembly hangar this morning for mounting atop the launcher. Liftoff is scheduled for March 4 from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41. Already shrouded within in the aerodynamic nose cone for launch, the OTV 2 spaceplane was hauled across the Cape overnight from...
Portland, OR - FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) is receiving strong demand for the Cobalt(tm), Star SAFIRE(r) and TALON(tm) classes of stabilized multi-sensor airborne systems for integration on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) across the world. Since the beginning of the year, FLIR has received orders for more than 130 airborne systems for a variety of applications and platforms in the Americas,...
The first Unmanned Systems Rodeo (USR) in the UAE will take place at the Higher Colleges of Technologies (HCT) in Abu Dhabi on May 4 and 5, 2011. This was announced by the organizers of the rodeo, INEGMA, during a joint press conference with HCT, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investment – ADASI. Sheikh Nahyan Bin...
Washington, D.C. – With the Senate passage of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill late last night, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) announced several provisions that will benefit Oregon, including improved commercial air service between western states and Washington, D.C., protecting Crater Lake from air tour flyovers, increasing testing sites for civilian uses of unmanned aerial vehicles and a...
Sentient to add Automated Life Jacket Detection to Kestrel Maritime Abu Dhabi, UAE – 20 February 2011 – Sentient has enhanced its automated target detection solution Kestrel Maritime to detect small, high visibility objects such as life jackets, supporting maritime search and rescue operations. Kestrel Maritime is a software solution that processes electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) full motion...
Vienna, 20 February 2011 Following contract award in July 2010, Schiebel is pleased to announce delivery of two CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) to the King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) of Jordan. The UAS will form a key part of the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) Reconnaissance Squadron, as KADDB is an independent Governmental military-civilian agency existing...
M U N C I E, I N – Sen. James Inhofe, OK, successfully sponsored S.223 in the Senate yesterday with an amendment specifying a “Special Rule For Model Aircraft” that provides an exemption from regulation for model aircraft operating within the following parameters: Flown specifically for recreational, sport, competition, or academic purposes; Operated in accordance with a community-based...
Since posting Aerovironments press release we have been suprised at the number of flat earthers that simply don’t believe that the Nano Air Vehicle flew. It featured on ABC news Saturday night. Aerovironment seems to have struck a rich vein in public imagination as rumours about the use and reality of the project have lit the web up since...
FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011 Start logging flight hours and failures and hope to be one of the chosen few allowed to start dipping their toes in the water. That seems to be the cut of a Bill just leaving Capitol Hill. The FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011 (HR 658) was introduced Feb. 11 by...
By Lance Cpl. Andrew D. Thorburn , Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Since the French Revolution, military commanders have been using aerial reconnaissance to monitor enemy movements. The system has evolved from vehicles using primitive smoke balloons to modern unmanned aerial vehicles. Aboard the Combat Center,...
Retired generals Diomedio Villanueva and Roy Cimatu both defended the procurement of the UAV demo units from an Israeli firm in 2002 and said that the equipment were used for about 5 months. It was Villanueva, the military chief from March 2001-May 2002, who gave the go-signal for the transaction as alleged by former budget officer Lt.Col. George Rabusa...
• Two-wing, Flapping Aircraft Hovers and Flies in Any Direction • Total Weight of Two-thirds of an Ounce Includes Batteries and Video Camera WASHINGTON, at AAAS Conference, Feb. 17, 2011 – AeroVironment, Inc. (AV)(NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced it has accomplished a technical milestone never before achieved — controlled precision hovering and fast-forward flight of a two-wing, flapping wing aircraft...
By Christian V. Esguerra Philippine Daily Inquirer Former Chief of Staff General Roy Cimatu has denied ordering whistleblower George Rabusa to produce $2 million for the purchase of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in 2001. MANILA, Philippines – Former Chief of Staff General Roy Cimatu has denied ordering whistleblower George Rabusa to produce $2 million for the purchase of unmanned...
MicroPilot has combined three of its premier MP2128g autopilots into the first commercially available triple-redundancy unmanned aerial vehicle autopilot. Loaded with multiple communication links, backup high current drivers, backup power supplies, and independently generated servo signals, this autopilot sets new reliability standards within the industry. Stony Mountain, Manitoba, Canada – The MP21283X, MicroPilot’s triple-redundancy (3X) autopilot, is now available....
MTSU and ISR Group, based in Savannah, Tenn., have signed a multi-year collaborative agreement to develop an unparalleled Unmanned Aerial System program in the southeastern United States, officials from both MTSU and ISR Group announced in a news release. The agreement ties MTSU’s nationally ranked Department of Aerospace with ISR Group’s industry-leading UAS experts, facilities and flight range to...
MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 15 (UPI) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security tapped ATS Corp. for a system to test the effectiveness of various technologies it uses. Under the award, ATSC will support Homeland Security initiatives to secure the country’s borders against smuggling, illegal trafficking and terrorism by providing the Border Technology Test Bed controlled environment that enables the...
