PETER JEAN of the Canberra Times reports Police have suggested that Canberra’s new point-to-point speed cameras be linked to unmanned aerial surveillance drones and used to track vehicles of interest to authorities. The first of the cameras, which use automated number plate recognition technology to calculate a car’s average speed and whether it is within the legal limit, are...
The Grand Forks Herald reports the arrival of Block 20 Global Hawks at Grand Forks Airforce Base Grand Forks Air Force Base is taking control of more Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, according to their manufacturer Northrop Grumman. The latest batch serve as, essentially, flying “cell towers” that allow troops on the ground to chat with bombers in the sky,...
By Pfc. Cory D. Polom , Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — For the last decade Marines have fought against terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan with battles primarily fought on the ground. So why do squads continue to carry the PL-87 Stinger missile and other anti-aircraft weapons with them during convoys?Marines are known...
The growth variant of the AE 3007H engine for UAVs from Rolls Royce has cleared the flight tests conducted by the US Air Force. These flight tests are entirely funded by the US Air Force. The new engine has been specifically designed to improve the performance of the RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV with enhanced toughness and cost reductions. Particularly...
The format of the competition will build on the success of the UAV competitions held in 2007, 2009 and 2011 and will keep expanding through the involvement of UGVs. There are two competitions running together at the same time and location – one for UAV entries and another for UGV entries. The intent is to eventually have the competition mature to...
The Indian Air Force (IAF) was reprimanded by the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General)for causing damage to an aerostat radar deployed along the Pakistan border to monitorlow-flying enemy aircraft resulting in a loss of Rs 302 crore. In its report tabled today in Parliament, the CAG said the accident took place in May 2009 due to “failure” of its...
Story by Cpl. Justin Boling CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – Sgt. Chad John spends 12 hours a day with an aerial view of Afghanistan, but he rarely leaves the ground. John, a native of Shiprock, N.M, is an unmanned aerial vehicle operator with Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 3. The sergeant is currently deployed to Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan. The Marine Corps...
Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) activities are constantly growing in Latin America. There are ongoing UAS developments (civil & military) in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. There are currently UAS operations (civil and/or military) in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Amongst others, UAS are being used for flare stack inspection, illegal fishery patrol,...
Episode three of the agressive quadrotor series from The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab at Penn Engineering. https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/ Whilst still within the motion capture rig it can’t be long before all the processing can be calculated onboard. Once computing power is there GRASP have all the sums for making future missions happen. Easy to see the range increasing...
International experts in the field of autonomous aircraft technology gathering of 12 to 15 September 2011 on the Veluwe to participate in a contest for tiny flyers. The planes had to independently perform tasks such as tracking and analysis of a (simulated) drug deal. The contest is part of the International Micro Air Vehicle Conference (IMAV 2011 “Summer Edition”) for...
Elbit Sisteme Romania will present an array of its advanced next-generation solutions and systems at EXPOMIL 2011, set to take place in Bucharest Romania, 22-25 September. The Company’s exhibition booth will be the venue for a full spectrum of advanced systems demonstrating leadership in all of its business areas. EXPOMIL 2011 will be an excellent opportunity for visitors to...
MAVinci offer a complete airframe and imaging system. Orthophoto UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) SIRIUS I and SIRIUS II are the perfect tool for simple, fast and cost efficient acquisition of aerial images. They include the UAS software MAVinci Desktop which is your key to valuable geoinformation. MAVinci Desktop provides: Automatic flight planning UAV control during the flight Rapid on the field quality...
sUAS News Editors note: Ali Parvazi was kind enough to write this multi part story for the sUAS News. The impetuous for this story is to give some apolitical insight into what Iranian academia et al, have been able to accomplishing under sanctions, and basically on their own. That notion was conveyed to Ali when asking if he was...
Stephen Trimble from the DEWline reports Russia’s strange absence of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) stands out among the world’s biggest military spenders. The idea of home-grown, medium-altitude UAV for surveillance and strike is certainly not some US and Israeli fetish. China has the Pterodactyl (also known as Wing-Loong), India has the Rustom. Even relatively smaller spenders, like the United...
Edited and Translated by Yaochun, People’s Daily Online Beijing–The commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) codenamed AH3N, which was independently developed by Anhua Agricultural Insurance Co., LTD, was granted a chartered flight certificate recently. It is the very first time in China and it marks the evolvement of China’s commercial UAVhas entered the systematic application phase, a historical new height,...
Spc. Latoya Wiggins, 12th Public Affairs Detachment MICHAEL ARMY AIRFIELD, Utah, Sept. 16, 2011 — The Project Offices for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Apache Attack Helicopter and Armed Scout Helicopter conducted an exercise showcasing advancements made in aircraft interoperability, referred to as the Manned Unmanned System Integration Capability, or MUSIC, Exercise at Michael Army Airfield, Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, today....
According to an executive at Turkish Aerospace Industries, the new Egyptian government is interested in buying Turkey-made unmanned planes. Some Middle East countries prefer Turkey rather than Israel or the US, defense experts say. Turkey will also sell six multi-role tactical platform naval vessels to the North African country Egypt is interested in buying made-in-Turkey unmanned aerial vehicles called...
Coming out of another long summer of the doldrums and folks are wondering and asking what, if anything, is going on? We’ll start with the quantifiable and move on to the conjecture as the piece builds up a good head of steam. Its the end of summer and splashed across the front page of sUAS News is another one...
The BBC report another downed drone, is it one of the bird type or another?? Full BBC report Pakistani troops have battled Taliban fighters for the debris of a US unmanned drone which crashed in a north-western tribal area. It was not clear whether the unmanned drone had come down because of Taliban fire or due to a technical...
It appears that the manned aviation community is jumping to conclusions with egregious claims that the RQ-7 Shadow “ran into” or even, “crashed into” the C-130. These comments were made without seeing photos and/or interviewing those involved. Such a rush to judgement is outrageous! Preliminary reports given to sUAS News, along with exclusive photographs, suggest other possibilities. We as...
When Hood Tech began producing 800-gm video-camera turrets in 1998, it enabled an entirely new class of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Image quality delivered at that time would be considered primitive today, but 10 years ago, operators of these small UAVs were happy to receive any real-time video at all. A decade later, customer expectations have escalated; National...
BY MICHAEL MCNUTT Yet another committee in the USA the Oklahoman reports that Gov Mary Fallin has formed a group to push UAS use. Perhaps the most interesting point, if true, is that Gov.Fallin was the only Governor to attend the recent AUVSI conference in Washington, the largest UAS event in America. That’s many states not taking UAS seriously over there. Gov. Mary...
YEREVAN — The Armenian leadership in Nagorno-Karabakh has said the reported downing of an Azerbaijani drone over the breakaway Azerbaijani region will “restrain” Baku in starting a military conflict over Karabakh, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports. Armenian Karabakh leader Bako Sahakian said through a spokesman that the reconnaissance flight allegedly carried out by the destroyed unmanned aircraft constitutes a serious cease-fire violation. “First of all,...
Defence & Security Equipment international can confirm that the Pakistan Ordnance Factory stand and Pakistan’s Defence Export Promotion Organisation Pavilion have both been permanently shut down after promotional material was found on both containing references to equipment, which after close examination, was found to breach UK Government Export Controls and our own contractual requirements. HM Government fully supports the...
CARSON, Calif. – Sept. 14, 2011 – Northrop Grumman Corporation has signed a three-year agreement with Inmarsat Global Limited, London, to become a leased services provider and network services distribution partner of Inmarsat Commercial Satellite Services around the world. Under the agreement, signed Aug. 17, Northrop Grumman will distribute Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network and offer standard Inmarsat products...
Armenian military downed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operated by the Azerbaijani armed forces, officials said on September 14. The aircraft went down on September 12 at 7:30 AM local time near Vazgenashen in Nagorno Karabakh’s Martuni district “as a result of special measures undertaken by units of air defense and radio-electronic warfare of the Karabakh Defense Army,” the...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, today announced that it has completed initial testing of a new UAS open payload architecture in its Poway, Calif., System Integration Lab (SIL). The testing demonstrated the ability to host third party-developed payload control software on existing airborne...
