Electronic Sub-Systems
ITT Exelis unveiled its airborne sense-and-avoid (ABSAA) radar under development for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system. It is also being promoted for other UAS as a solution to flying in unrestricted airspace, branded as the SkySense 2020H
Testing
The U.S. Army's Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) flew for the first time from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., on August 7. The LEMV, a first-of-its-kind airship, took to the sky at 6:49 p.m. Eastern time and flew for
Testing
Cassidian is in discussions with the German Ministry of Defence concerning additional flight demonstrations under a programme to develop technology for future unmanned, surveillance and strike aircraft. EADS conducted the latest campaign of flights with its Barracuda unmanned aircraft demonstrator in Goose Bay, Canada, in July. The tests focused on
Insitu Inc. announced that it is conducting field evaluation of two new turrets for its ScanEagle.One gives customers better stabilization and situational awareness at high zoom. The other gives customers a new dual imager capability in a small tactical UAS with electro-optic and mid-wave infrared imagers in
Training
Officials at the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) announced what it is calling “the first training centre in Europe for operators of unmanned aircraft systems.” NLR, with partners such as the University of Tilburg, are researching the possibilities of UAS operator education and training, with the goal of increasing the safety,
The Silent Falcon is a compact unmanned aircraft weighing a bit more than 20 pounds. It can run for hours on batteries and solar power and has a maximum wing span of 17 feet. The aircraft is the brain child of Albuquerque native John Brown. He says the motto of
Data Links & Communications
Boeing has delivered production units of a smaller, lighter version of its Tactical Compact Communications Relay (TCCR), which allows a small unmanned aircraft to function as a tactical, range-extending communications repeater for military handheld radios. Boeing subsidiary Insitu received four 1-pound TCCRs following tests of the narrowband relay
Testing
The Boeing X-48C Blended Wing Body unmanned research aircraft took to the skies on its first-ever flight at 7:56 a.m. Pacific Time on August 7 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The aircraft climbed to an altitude
Raytheon Company completed a successful warhead and guidance system test of its Pyros small tactical munition. The end-to-end test validated the weapon’s guidance modes (semi-active laser and global positioning system), its height-of-burst sensor, electronic safe and arm device, and multi-effects warhead. “All systems
With the second Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (TUAS) having recently arrived in Australia, Sentient announced that it has expanded its engagement with the Australian Army, providing additional Kestrel Land MTI licenses in support of the Shadow’s Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) operations.Kestrel Land MTI
Military
Insitu Inc. announced today that its Netherlands customer is now authorized to fly the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) under a limited military aircraft type-classification certificate from the Military Aviation Authority (MAA) of the Netherlands. “We understood the urgency of obtaining this limited military-type certificate for our customer
Commercial
UNOSAT continues to pioneer the use of UAS by testing live video streaming at the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. The first UAS mission was deployed in Haiti last February to analyse damages to assess building reconstruction. The UAS used in the test, also known as md4-200, is a