The Canadian Air Force is moving ahead with its weaponised drone program. The government published the call-out to the defense industry on Friday, asking military contractors to spell out how they would build a Canadian drone fleet. The Joint Unmanned Surveillance and Target Acquisition System (JUSTAS), after years of
Four years after the Air Force’s missile-zapping Boeing 747 went to its final resting place in the Arizona desert, the Pentagon is thinking anew about airborne lasers that shoot down ballistic missiles. This time, they’d be mounted on smaller, higher-flying drones. The idea has been around
Training
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District teamed with officials and contractors at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, to break ground for the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System facility construction project Jan. 12. The contract calls for the construction of a 52,000 square
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“We get experience faster by flying aircraft simultaneously,” observes Aerovel’s Tad McGeer about the first dual-Flexrotor flight in midJanuary. “People appreciate the aircraft’s capability” – an exceptional combination of small size, light footprint, VTOL, and long endurance – “Now they ask about reliability. For definitive answers we have to
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Aerospace testing can be costly and time consuming but a new modular, subscale remotely piloted aircraft offers NASA researchers more affordable options for developing a wide range of cutting edge aviation and space technologies. The Prototype-Technology Evaluation and Research Aircraft (PTERA), developed by Area-I, Inc., of Kennesaw, Georgia,
Regulations
Before airplanes and drones existed, people owned everything above and below their land—according to the law, their rights extended “to the heavens and down to hell.” But modern aviation changed this definition in a big way. In the early 20th century Congress declared the air a public highway, which
Army aviation special operators want new unmanned aircraft systems that can carry multiple sensors to collect vital intelligence from the battlefield and they're working with the Army to achieve the capability, Brig. Gen. Erik Peterson, the Army Special Operations Aviation Command commander, said last Thursday. Peterson, speaking at
Commercial
Scarecrows and other visually intimidating props placed on the ground can be useful in deterring birds within a certain radius, but one company is looking further afield by battling the pests in the sky. Designed to resemble a real-life bird of prey, the ProHawk UAV can be programmed to
Payloads
The Northrop Grumman universal payload adapter attaches to the underside of the RQ-4 Global Hawk. Northrop Grumman has started demonstrating the capability of the unmanned RQ-4B Global Hawk to carry new sensors, including sensors carried on the venerable U-2 Dragon Lady high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, using a
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Naval Postgraduate School polar meteorologist and professor Peter Guest spent more than 40 days late last year as the only scientist from NPS in a group from the U.S. and other countries researching the region's receding ice cover. It's a part of the world the
Research
Researchers in Belgium have devised a prototype delivery drone which they say could rival the likes of Amazon Prime Air and Google's Project Wing. The University of Leuven team behind VertiKUL 2 (KUL is the acronym for Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) say the drone combines the ability of quad-
Commercial
A new drone called Fleye uses a new safer drone design, using protective grids to prevent any injury from the drones spinning blades— the creators made sure that the Fleye was safe to use.The main innovation of Fleye is its unique spherical design, where all moving parts are fully