Paris is open to offers from Germany and Italy to join an Anglo-French project to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned air system, according to the head of France's DGA Defence Procurement Agency. "No door is closed" to either country co-operating in
What combat helicopters and unmanned aircraft in Afghanistan need in a hurry is an inexpensive, lightweight rocket that can be fired with enough accuracy to guide itself through a window-size target from outside the range of small-arms and light anti-aircraft fire. The U.S. Navy believes it
The ‘HoverMast’ developed by the Israeli start-up company Sky Sapience is scheduled to go on an operational demonstration in the upcoming months, demonstrating the system’s capability to expand the surveillance coverage of unmanned ground vehicles. The payload currently integrated on the HoverMast is the T-Stamp from Controp,
Business
Icaros Inc and Mavinci have established an agreement whereby the Icaros process service will be added to the portfolio of MAVinci's post processing solutions. Any Mavinci customer will be able to upload Images into Icaros’ server for Orthophoto and DTM extraction, directly from Mavinci desktop application, creating easy
Testing
This video* shows China's Sunward Tech Star-lite SVU200 vertical take-off and landing unmanned aircraft during its maiden flight. The video is compiled from segments of the first test-flights of the Heavy-Lift SVU200, designed and built by Mr. Dennis Fetters with help from Mr. James
Military
Iran's Air Defence Force assessed the preparedness and performance of its air defense artillery and mid-range missile systems against low-altitude aerial threats during the military drills along the country's coastal waters in the Persian Gulf. The drills were staged by the air defence units
A briefcase filled with documents relating to a new Franco-British UAS project has been stolen at the Gare du Nord station in Paris. Police have been examining closed circuit film to discover who took the papers, reportedly on 2 February. UK PM David Cameron discussed a plan for a
Testing
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced the successful demonstration of an early prototype of its Due Regard Radar on a manned aircraft. The Due Regard Radar is a company-funded system that supports GA-ASI’s overall radar-based airborne sense-and-avoid architecture for its Predator B UAS.
Data Links & Communications
The LONGBOW Limited Liability Company, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman , recently delivered the first production Unmanned Aerial Systems Tactical Common Data Link Assembly (UTA) to the U.S. Army for the Apache Block III helicopter. "The delivery of the first Apache Block III UAS control
Thales UK has confirmed that it has provided France's DGA procurement agency and army with technical information about the Watchkeeper tactical unmanned aircraft system, as its British Army launch customer prepares to begin operational field trials with the type. French interest in the Watchkeeper system was revealed during
Testing
Since the capture of the US RQ-170, Tehran has been using the media to display its capability to reverse engineer or build its own unmanned aircraft. However, some of them seem to be modified radio-controlled models rather than real UAS. Anyway, those made by the students at the
Electronic Sub-Systems
India plans to develop new-generation Electronic Warfare (EW) systems to be fitted on Unmanned Aircraft, aircraft and satellites that would help it see "deep inside enemy territories", a key defence research and development official said in Bangalore. Chief Controller, Research and Development (Electronics and Computer Sciences), Defence