Commercial
They belong to the most skilled and equipped top elite units within the "Middle Kingdom", the Chinese Armed Police Forces (CAPF). The General himself personally made the long journey to Germany to hand over the Golden Emblem of the CAPF to the engineer Udo Juerss, the CTO of
Events
Over one thousand law enforcement pilots, tactical flight officers and service providers from across the country will take part in the Airborne Law Enforcement Association’s (ALEA) 41st Annual Conference and Exposition hosted by the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office RAVEN Aviation Unit from July 11 through 13 at the
This is an image of a gigapixel camera currently being developed by DARPA’s Advanced Wide FOV Architectures for Image Reconstruction and Exploitation (AWARE) programme. As part of the programme, DARPA successfully tested cameras with 1.4 and 0.96 gigapixel resolution at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC.
Military
During American Independence Day, three Marines of Company G., Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, made Marine Corps history as they launched the first Raven UAS in the Pacific Command area during Exercise Hamel 2012. Beginning in the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Defense
Military
Some interesting screen shots, taken from a documentary about the Great Prophet 7 exercise held in Iran last week expose several new types of unmanned aircraft currently being developed by Tehran. The above is a brand new aircraft seemingly available in dual configuration: landing gear (image above) or skids (image
Events
Now in its 22nd year, the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase hit the Cannes Lions Festival - the festival of creativity - again, unveiling another presentation of the new directorial talent. Marshmallow Laser Feast (Robin McNicholas, Memo Akten and Barnaby Steel) were the creative and technical directors of the production which
Swaths of restricted airspace will take effect in the area of Devils Lake, N.D., July 26—but pilots won’t see a hint of them on current sectional charts. The FAA finalized the establishment of seven new restricted areas June 20 to accommodate operations of laser-equipped unmanned aircraft
Data Links & Communications
Laser technology has yet to mature, and many enhancements are left to be made. Everything lasers can do currently is still improving at a rapid rate and new techniques to improve lasers are still in the works. One such new technique is beam combining, which blends several laser streams into
Business
The Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission (JEDCO) announced the graduation of Crescent Unmanned Systems, LLC, from JEDCO’s Business Innovation Center. The early-stage company manufactures and markets specialized, unmanned aircraft systems with advanced surveillance capabilities. They can be used for law enforcement, military, and commercial applications.Crescent Unmanned joined
Business
BAE and Dassault will use Farnborough to strengthen their relationship. Contracts linked to two new activities are likely to be signed at or around the show, says Tom Fillingham, director of future combat air systems (FCAS) for BAE's Military Air & Information business unit. The first, to run
Military
Lockheed Martin just posted this short video of the Stalker UAS in action. The small and silent Stalker unmanned aircraft system has been in use since 2006 by Special Operations Forces to gather critical intelligence information. Source: YouTube
American industry association, the AUVSI published the “Unmanned Aircraft System Operations Industry Code of Conduct a set of guidelines to provide AUVSI members – and those who design, test and operate UAS for public and civil use – with recommendations for their safe, non-intrusive operation. Central to the “Code of Conduct”