Raytheon Company's Small Tactical Munition Phase II scored a direct hit on a target during the weapon's first guided flight test. "STM Phase II is ideally suited to weaponize Shadow-class unmanned aircraft systems and counterinsurgency aircraft because STM is a mature, precise and affordable
Military
Russia’s Defence Ministry has issued a technical specification for development of a strike unmanned aircraft (UAS), Izvestia daily said on Monday quoting a high-level source. Tranzas company will build the UAS on-board electronics as well as its navigation and control systems. The airframe, which will weigh about
Military
Spain will deploy two new types of UAS in Afghanistan during 2012, for a total of six aircraft. The IAI Searcher MKII and III aircraft have been deployed since March of 2008 exclusively at the Forward Support Base of Herat, but from now on Spain will also have a ground
Events
Once again, Northrop Grumman will be sponsoring the UAE Innovation Challenge 2012 in Abu Dhabi. The Competition Week is April 22-26, 2012, with the Flight Competition being held on 24 to 25 April , and the Awards Ceremony for the design, build and flying of an automated unmanned aircraft will
Events
The RPAS 2012 conference, which takes place in Paris, France on 5-7 June 2012, will feature 45 speakers from international organizations (ICAO, JARUS), European organizations [European Commission Directorate General Enterprise & Industry, Directorate General for Mobility & Transport; European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), EUROCONTROL, ECAC, European Defence Agency (EDA)
Harvard University Microrobotics Laboratory engineers have come up with a novel new approach to fabricating their micro robotic bees. The Harvard Monolithic Bee (or Robobee) is a bio-inspired robot, approximately on the scale of an actual bee, that can fly and work autonomously. Research with the bees, however, was
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the Office of Naval Research to develop a new cost-effective atom-based magnetic sensor, or magnetometer, for antisubmarine warfare operations. The highly sensitive magnetometer will be part of a magnetic anomaly detection system mounted on helicopters, unmanned aircraft or submarines. Whether in
Propulsion
In preparation for their attempt at round-the-world flight in 2014, the Solar Impulse team has announced the destination of its 2012 mission: the Kingdom of Morocco. This spring, Solar Impulse will attempt another world first by flying more than 2,500 km,(1,550 miles) without using a
NuWaves Engineering, an international Radio Frequency (RF) solutions company, has been selected to join the University of Dayton Research Institute's Center for Unmanned Aerial System Exploitation (CUE) consortium. CUE was established in September 2009 under a grant from the Ohio Third Frontier programme to meet increasing demand for
Testing
Jarno Smeets, a 32 year-old Dutchman and creator of the Human Birdwings Project, made history on Sunday with a record-breaking flight of over 100 meters in his local park achieved purely by flapping his wings. After 8 months of hard work, research and testing his hard work had
Military
Northrop Grumman has established a Global Hawk Support Website where pertinent information about the Global Hawk (and related platforms) is provided. NGC uses the new website to put their case against the USAF decision to terminate Block 30 Global Hawk: * Global Hawks fly 3-4 times longer missions and farther
Propulsion
Mav6 continues to progress on assembly of the M1400 Blue Devil 2 at airship maker TCOM‘s hangar in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The latest pictures show mounting of the engines. The VTOL engines are Honeywell TPE331-12 vectorable turboprops driving MT MTV-27 props. To provide a sense of