Israel and Russia contracted a deal several years ago under which Israel provided Russia with codes for UAS it sold to Georgia in exchange for Iranian aerial defence system codes. WikiLeaks has released an email exchange between employees of Stratfor, the US-based global intelligence company, which reveals that Israel
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Insitu IntegratorAAI, Boeing and a Computer Sciences Corp (CSC)/Saab team were selected by the US Navy today to compete for task orders for services provided by unmanned aircraft systems worth up to $874 million. While the Navy did not reveal the selected aircraft, AAI offered the latest version of
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The Netherlands has launched the process to acquire a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system capability later this decade, with its defence ministry seeking information from potential suppliers. With an operational system planned to enter use in the 2015-2016 financial year, the Netherlands Defence Material Organisation (DMO) has
Lighter Than Air
The 370-foot-long (123 m), 1.4 million-cubic-foot (37,000 m3) Mav6 M1400 Blue Devil 2 is in final assembly at airship maker TCOM's hangar in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Despite rumours to the contrary, work is still very much underway, with sub-contractor Almaga
Propulsion
ITM Power has signed an Equipment Development and Lease Agreement with Boeing Research & Technology Europe S.L.U. for the development, assembly and field trials of a 1 Nm3/hour (2.1 kg/day) PEM electrolyser. The containerised electrolysis equipment will form part of Boeing’s current off-grid
Training
Unmanned Aircraft System operators are used to searching for targets and gathering intelligence. But this time, they are not looking for suspicious vehicles, missile launchers, or ammunitions depots - but a parachute, an ejected seat, or an airplane crash site. The morning report read as follows: "Netz" type aircraft
UTA researchers will gain access to a database of Department of Defense patents as part of a joint venture with the newly established Unmanned Aerial Systems Consortium. The consortium is a partnership between the Arlington Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Innovation, UTA and other corporate and governmental contributors. The
More than 100 privacy groups, experts and individuals have petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration to address the impact of unmanned aircraft in the US as the agency moves to implement new rules for domestic use. The impending domestic use of UAS that can provide unprecedented platforms for surveillance for law
Aerial photography company Aerialtronics, based in The Hague, Netherlands, just posted this scoop video taken of one of its Altura Hexacopters flying inside the Dutch Parliament. The public TV News Channel NOS commissioned the project for their political review of 2011.They wanted to make unique shots of the Dutch
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SAGEM has signed a contract with SIMMAD, the Maintenance Organisation of the French Ministry of Defence, to provide in-service maintenance for the Sperwer tactical unmanned aircraft system deployed by the French Army. The contract covers all maintenance, repair and technical support services for systems in service with the army
Events
Israel Aerospace Industries will present new solutions for landing and take off of Unmanned Aircraft System, implemented in the Panther, at the 52nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences. The Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences is held every year by the Israel society of aerospace sciences. Lectures are given
Testing
Northrop Grumman Corporation continues flight tests of the first developmental multifunction active sensor (MFAS) radar destined for the U.S. Navy's MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS). The MFAS sensor has been integrated into the company's Gulfstream II test-bed aircraft