Military
Iran's security forces are mounting missiles on it's independently produced long-range UAS, a top Iranian official said on Sunday, adding that Iran managed to obtain technical information from the RQ-170that was captured by the Islamic Republic late last year. In 2010, Iran unveiled a
Military
Global Hawk touching down at RAAF Edinburgh in February 2006 The United States flew highly classified Global Hawk surveillance missions from the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh in South Australia from late 2001 until at least 2006.The operations were detected by a group of Adelaide aviation historians
High-tech robots being developed by a group of scientists near Medicine Hat, Alberta, could soon be used to detect leaks in pipelines or avalanches in the mountains. The UAS are being developed at Canadian Forces Base Suffield to use overseas for gathering information or carrying cargo. Jared Giesbrecht, who
Business
Science Applications International Corporation announced it was awarded a prime contract by the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) to provide Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Ground Control Station (GCS) and Combined Operations Center (Combined Ops Ctr) support. The single-award cost-plus fixed-fee (CPFF) contract has a
Military
In late August, HMCS Charlottetown wraps up a seven-month deployment and bids farewell to the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft detachment that shared the flight deck with Osprey, the Halifax-class frigate’s CH-124 Sea King helicopter. Charlottetown is the first Canadian warship to carry a UAS detachment throughout an
Electronic Sub-Systems
Nano-miniature connectors from TE Connectivity combine appealing size and weight with desired performance attributes such as high reliability, low contact resistance and wide operation temperature range, making them among the smallest and toughest connectors available to designers.The connectors offer dramatic space and weight savings in applications where size,
Business
Rheinmetall Airborne Systems GmbH has announced details of the completely new, bi-hybrid tactical Unmanned Aircraft System that we revealed last week. The airborne system, currently operating under the project name TU-150 *, unifies fixed-wing with VTOL characteristics and is being developed in close cooperation with the Swiss UAV
Propulsion
An aircraft that resembles a four-point ninja star could go into supersonic mode by simply turning 90 degrees in midair. The unusual "flying wing" concept has won $100,000 in NASA funding to trying becoming a reality for future passenger jet travel. The supersonic, bidirectional flying wing
Military
The head of Germany's Air Force called for Berlin to buy controversial missile-armed Predators for future conflicts.Lieutenant-General Karl Muellner said strict rules of engagement would meet those objections. "There is not a single case where we haven't stuck to the rules,"
VTOL
Researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, have developed a quadcopter that can be controlled by thought alone. The idea is to give people with impaired motor abilities a new avenue for interaction.Their system relies on the commercially available Emotiv electroencephalography (EEG) headset to interpret brain activity as commands
On 21 August 2012 EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) made NPA-2012-10 "Transposition of Amendment 43 to Annex 2 to the Chicago Convention on remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) into common rules of the air" available for public consultation on its website. To supply comments, please logon
Business
Northrop Grumman Corp. is being awarded a $40,137,349 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for operations and maintenance services in support of the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance – Demonstrator Unmanned Aircraft System, also known as the Global Hawk Maritime – Demonstrator. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Md. (70 percent)