Military
AAI Shadow(R) Tactical UAS Achieve 750,000 Flight Hours
"This is another tremendous milestone for the Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System. It continues to build on its reputation as the workhorse for Army UAS."
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Military
Germany's Defence Minister Has No Problem with Armed UAS
"A drone is nothing more than a plane without a pilot," Germany's Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere told the daily "Die Welt" in an article on Saturday. He said he that was in favour of the German armed forces using armed unmanned aircraft. "
US Court Upholds Unmanned Aircraft Use in Arrest of American Citizen
A North Dakota court has preliminarily upheld the first-ever use of an unmanned aircraft to assist in the arrest of an American citizen.A judge denied a request to dismiss charges Wednesday against Rodney Brossart, a man arrested last year after a 16-hour standoff with police at his
Business
Dynamics Research Corporation Gets $13M US Air Force Support Contract
Dynamics Research Corporation, a provider of management consulting, engineering, science and technology solutions to federal and state governments, yesterday announced it has been awarded a contract by the Army Contracting Command - National Capital Region to support the Air Force Medium Altitude Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office.The task order, valued
VTOL
Lockheed Martin Procerus Technologies New QuadRotor VTOL UAS
Lockheed Martin Procerus Technologies’ has announced a new small vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system which can be deployed in just minutes. The rugged, five-pound VTOL quad rotor, dual-sensor platform features an extended hover, perch and stare capability that provides military, civil and commercial customers
Brock Technologies, Inc. Redefines Small Portable Ground Control Stations
Brock Technologies, Inc. of Tucson, Arizona announced their latest innovation, the Micro Portable Ground Control Station (uPGCS). The uPGCS builds upon the functionality provided by the Cloud Cap Technologies Portable Ground Control Station (PGCS) commonly used for the Command and Control (C2) of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) utilizing the commercially
Events
EURONAVAL Partners With UVS International
Organized under the joint patronage of the French Ministry of Defence and the Secretary of State for the Sea, the upcoming EURONAVAL exhibition will be held in France at the Paris – Le Bourget exhibition centre from 22 to 26 October 2012. EURONAVAL is one of the most important events on
Business
Elbit Sells Hermes 900 and Hermes 450 UAS to Latin America for Tens of Millions of Dollars
Elbit Systems Ltd. and TASE: ESLT, announced over the weekend that it was awarded a contract valued at many tens of millions of dollars, to supply a Latin American customer with a mixed fleet of Hermes 900 and Hermes 450 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The contract will be performed over
Commercial
Avian Mitigation Drones to Scare Seagulls in Idaho
Officials at the Pickles Butte Landfill in Caldwell, Idaho are using Avian Mitigation Drones, which, in other words, are remote-controlled eagles that are keeping the birds away from the landfill. "You'd be surprised how well this works," said Jack Biddle, landfill director. "The first
UAV Vision Releases New Stabilised Gimbal
UAV Vision has announced that it is releasing its CM100, light weight, 100 mm diameter multi-sensor gyro stabilised gimbal. The CM100 has both High Definition colour electro optical (EO) daylight and Infrared (IR) sensors, and weighs less than 700g. Upgrades include higher resolution IR, and additional sensors such as
Propulsion
Protonex Announces Commercial Fuel Cell Power System for Unmanned Applications
Protonex Technology Corporation, a provider of advanced lightweight military power systems, announces the commercial availability of the UAV-H500 fuel cell power system for unmanned aerial and ground vehicles. The UAV-H500 is a commercial variant of the power system used by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to set
Commercial
UAS Probes UK's Disused Nuclear Reactors
A small UAS is being developed for use at some of the oldest radioactive silos at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site because scientists are not sure what is inside them, according to the UK's Guardian newspaper. The hope is that an unmanned aircraft could use laser profiling to