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US Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit demonstrated the capabilities of the MEU’s unmanned aerial system assets for members of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, April 12, at Inezgane Airfield. The UAS demonstration was part of the Command Post Exercise portion of Exercise African Lion 12, a bi-
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On April 15, 2012, a mass military parade was held in the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivered his first public televised speech Sunday, just
Commercial
Brain Farm Digital Cinema, Snaproll Media, and Schiebel have announced that the CAMCOPTER S-100 achieved the first ever UAS first flight with the CINEFLEX camera. The days of shooting were successfully carried out in Austria, bringing new levels of innovation to the film and broadcast industry professionals around the
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The US Air Force decided to reduce its purchases of Reapers from 48 last year to 24 in the proposed Fiscal Year 2013 budget. The cutbacks have nothing to do with the effectiveness of the aircraft or sensor technology and everything to do with the underlying problem of finding the
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The Israeli Navy wants to equip its Dvora-class patrol boats with small vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft systems. Colonel Sassi Hudeda, head of the navy's weapon systems department, says the effort to develop a small VTOL system is being made with Israeli industry and
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The Kansas State University Department of Agronomy recently purchased a new MAJA Unmanned Aircraft System, with the intent of installing imaging systems on it for studying plant productivity, monitoring plant growth stages, assessing plant health, and mapping plant composition for characterizing changes in distribution of invasive and toxic plant species.
Business
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems and KOR Electronics Defense Solutions, a subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, announced a strategic alliance that combines AAI's expertise as a UAS systems integrator with KOR's signals intelligence (SIGINT) equipment. The organizations intend to integrate KOR's SIGINT products, focused on
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After Kerala and Gujarat, India is now deploying Navy unmanned aircraft on the Tamil Nadu coast to detect terror as well as conventional threats emanating from sea in real-time. The new naval UAS squadron, named INAS 344, with a mix of Israeli Searcher and Heron aircraft, will be formally
FLIR Systems has announced the availability of the Tau SWIR 15, a rugged compact and low-power shortwave imager incorporating FLIR’s new 15 micron pixel 640x515 InGaAs focal plane array. The Tau SWIR 15 is designed for defence system developers demanding SWAP+C requirements in dismounted soldier systems, ground
Commercial
The AggieAir Flying Circus is a service center at the Utah Water Research Laboratory that provides high resolution, multispectral aerial imagery using a small, unmanned aircraft system called AggieAir. Because AggieAir is a low-cost, easy-to-use platform it is able to map small areas quicker, more frequently, at
The US Air Force has reported that for the first time ever, a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) from Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, US, has supported an interstate search and rescue (SAR) mission. The aircraft, an MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ from the 29th Attack Squadron (ATKS), was used in SAR
Business
Unmanned Aircraft Systems continue as the most dynamic growth sector of the world aerospace industry this decade, according to Teal Group. The 2012 market study estimates that UAS spending will almost double over the next decade from current worldwide UAS expenditures of $6.6 billion annually to $11.4 billion,