Military
ScanEagle, the gorge-made robotic aircraft that has logged almost one million hours of flight, has landed in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum collection. The most widely known product of Bingen-based Insitu, the ScanEagle X200 was inducted into the museum earlier this month. Insitu officials believe
C-UAS
Turkey's ASELSAN domestic defense firm has developed an integrated air defense system to detect, track and disrupt small and micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) against any threat on public and commercial settlements. The Air Defense System (İHTAR) uses radio beams to freeze drones in midair by interfering with
Propulsion
A drone designed to fly with one propeller has been developed at the Institute for Dynamics Systems and Control at ETH Zurich.While most flying machines have multiple moving parts - flaps, hinges, and ailerons, the Monospinner achieves controlled flight with just one propeller. "This is really to push the
Business
AeroVironment, Inc. has announced the receipt of a contract from the Netherlands Ministry of Defence on October 14 for small UAS, upgrades and support services totaling $10,321,375. Delivery is anticipated within six months. The contract encompasses AeroVironment’s entire family of fixed wing small UAS and includes Digital
C-UAS
Strathclyde University has won Europe’s biggest space technology innovation competition for its work on a low-cost early detection system for UAVs. The winning project is a so-called ‘silent lookout’ system that uses low-cost sensors and satellite navigation technology for the early detection of UAVs. Dr Carmine
Events
Next month’s Drone World Expo will offer two phenomenal keynote panel discussions with leading industry experts providing the most current and forward-thinking information on this fast-paced, quickly changing and exciting industry. On Tuesday, November 15, the opening day, executives from NASA, Esri, IBM and the White House
Military
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has claimed to have developed a 'suicide drone' capable of delivering explosives to blow up targets both at sea and on land. The drone is reportedly designed to fly as low as two feet above the water at a speed of around
Military
A prototype of a hand-launched spy drone weighing roughly 21 ounces has been built at an engineering center in Samara, Russian, a defense industry source told RIA Novosti. "The Cluster Engineering Center in the Samara Region has developed a prototype of a special reconnaissance device based off a
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has established a military base in eastern Libya from where it is operating AT-802 light attack aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Airbus Defence and Space satellite imagery obtained by IHS Jane's shows. Al-Khadim Airport is in Marj province around 100
Testing
The Maneuver Battle Lab hosted the Technical Cooperation Program for a week of testing unmanned aircraft systems at the McKenna Urban Operations Complex Oct. 17-21. Specialists from Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia also participated in the weeklong testing. Keith Singleton, the chief of the unmanned systems team at
Regulations
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is to soon publish a new unmanned systems roadmap meant to guide industry for future investments and technology development. The roadmap, to be approved by the Pentagon's acquisition office and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is slated to be published by the
Military
The US Air Force wants to go beyond the traditional ground control station controlling a single aircraft and manage swarms of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) with the wave of a hand. Col Brandon Baker envisions a future where swarms of UAVs operate independent of a ground station, he told an