Russia’s military hardware manufacturers have already started developing their own unmanned aircraft. Although this is a secret task, experts say that these aircraft could be similar to the American Predators.Most likely, two Russian companies will carry out this task, says UAS expert Denis Fedutinov. “At present, two Russian
Lighter Than Air
The stripping down of Moffett Field Hangar One is nearly complete. The 79-year-old hangar’s walls and roof contained polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos and lead paint. In 2003 NASA determined that the hangar was leaking PCBs into storm drains and a nearby storm-water basin. While NASA now
Data Links & Communications
The security and reliability of unmanned aircraft is of considerable concern, especially when are increasingly employed in public airspace. Robert Dewar, President and CEO of AdaCore, a provider of commercial software solutions for the Ada programming language discusses the role of software in safety-, security-, and reliability-critical applications, including
Testing
The US military has dozens of different types of UAS and each one has its own unique controller. And each of those various controllers flies a single robot. There’s no system that controls multiple UAS at once. One Pentagon office thinks that’s an archaic way of doing business.
Business
Simlat has announced a recently awarded contract to provide a highly advanced UAS training system to Saint Louis University’s Center for Aviation Safety Research (CASR). Simlat’s full-crew trainer, the C-STAR, includes high-fidelity flight simulation for pilot training, as well as realistic and diverse mission simulation
A commercial satellite has spotted a mysterious unmanned aircraft parked at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The orbital snapshot was reportedly taken on Dec. 4, but became public only last week in a blog post by George Kaplan, a self-described “open source” intelligence analyst who
Military
Dassault Aviation and BAE Systems are waiting for the British and French governments to decide whether to sign a 40 million euro technology development contract for their long-awaited Medium-Altitude, Long Endurance (MALE) UAS, according to Eric Trappier, Dassault’s Head of International Affairs. “We have submitted comprehensive and
Testing
A Jetstream aircraft known as ‘The Flying Test Bed’, which can fly as if it were a UAS , is undergoing a series of flight trials in preparation for the first maiden flight of a surrogate UAS in UK shared airspace later this year. The aircraft will fly using Instrument Flight
Commercial
Olaeris, Inc. has unveiled a new VTOL Unmanned Aircraft System named AEVA that has been specifically developed for domestic emergency responders including fire, police and rescue workers. It is designed to be a first response aircraft that arrives at 911 emergencies before ground personnel to enhance safety and multiply manpower.
Data Links & Communications
RT Logic, a subsidary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., has launched its newest, most powerful and widest bandwidth RF Channel Simulator. The 250 MHz T400CS Wideband Channel Simulator precisely replicates the real-time RF conditions that can be expected in wideband SATCOM, aircraft, missile, and UAS missions. Its
Catia Version 5 Isometric view of the Model Aircraft The Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange at the University of Tennessee has just published an Honours Thesis Project on Humanitarian Response Unmanned Aircraft System (HR-UAS). The aim is to design an affordable, autonomous aircraft that can deliver 1,800 lbs.
Military
Mohajer 2 The manager of Venezuela’s UAS programme is an engineer who helped build ballistic missiles for Iran. The engineer’s identity raises new questions about the purposes behind Venezuela’s UAS programme. But it’s also only one part of a mystery involving UAS shipped from Iran to