Israel Aerospace Industries’ Tamam Division (IAI/Tamam) has launched a new line of True High Definition (HD) Day and Night Stabilized Optronic Payloads The new line uses a 1280 x 1024 detector for the thermal camera and a 1920 x 1080 detector for the day camera in the 14″Phi/
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced the successful demonstration of an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)-based surveillance system that provides pilots with enhanced situational awareness and supports GA-ASI’s overall airborne sense-and-avoid architecture for its Predator B. The purpose of the test was to
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Boeing and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., successfully tested the Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) during a flight over the Utah Test and Training Range that was monitored from Hill Air Force Base. CHAMP,
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First test flights are imminent for a European effort to develop an automated sense-and-avoid mid-air collision avoidance system that would help overcome safety concerns preventing use of unmanned aircraft in civilian airspace. The so-called MIDCAS system, being ground tested at Selex Galileo's unmanned systems
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The UN and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have long imposed a non-binding arms embargo on both Armenia and Azerbaijan, and both are under a de facto arms ban from the United States. But, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), this
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R³ Engineering LLC (R³E) is claiming the first ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast) based, fully autonomous collision avoidance sequence, executed by a sense and avoid system installed on an unmanned aircraft system. On Friday August 10th, 2012, an AWSAS™ (R³E’s All Weather Sense and Avoid System)
The Australian Government Civil Aviation Safety Authority has issued a statement to the effect that it has not yet given approval for a trial of aerial surf lifesaving patrols in south east Queensland using remotely piloted aircraft. Brisbane-based remotely piloted aircraft operator V-TOL Aerospace has recently applied for
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Cassidian has launched its TANAN 300 new-generation compact VTOL Tactical UAS for maritime and land missions. Designed in close collaboration with potential customers in order to match their specific requirements, TANAN 300 is a real ‘eye in the sky’ thanks to a full HD imagery chain and to its
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AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems has announced today that its Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System logged 168 flight hours in the frigid, harsh climate of Antarctica, supporting meteorological research by the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Each
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TEKEVER publicly presented for the first time in Portugal the latest addition to its family of Unmanned Aerial Systems, the Tactical UAS AR5 Life Ray, at the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) Annual Convention, which took place on October 10th-12th, in Lisbon. TEKEVER sponsors the most
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Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered a Global Hawkunmanned aircraft to the U.S. Air Force carrying the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), expanding airborne communications and information sharing among military units in harsh environments. Northrop Grumman produced and delivered the system four months ahead of schedule as part of an ongoing
Northrop Grumman and Navmar Applied Sciences are working together on the installation of the STARlite radar on the TigerShark UAS for the U.S Navy and special operations requirements. The AN/ZPY-1 STARlite system is operational with the US Army’s MQ-1Q Gray Eagle. A contract worth $41