VTOL
Israel Aerospace Industries has become the latest company to offer an unmanned helicopter for combat resupply and medevac missions. Avi Bleser, marketing director of IAI's Malat UAS division, said that although tests of the automated flight control system have so far been performed on a Bell 212, the
Business
Elbit Systems President and CEO Joseph Ackerman gave an interview to "Globes" at AUSA in Washington DC last week, in which he minimises the impact that the deterioration in Israel's relationships with Turkey is having on his business . Here is an extract: "Globes": How
VTOL
According to a report by According to a report by Yonhap News Agency, South Korea is developing a tilt-rotor type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which has the same vertical-takeoff capability of a helicopter but still retains the speed and range of a traditional, winged aircraft. “We’re
Training
The state of North Dakota is trying to position itself to become a leader in unmanned aircraft. Two years ago, the University of North Dakota became the first civilian school to offer a four-year degree in unmanned aircraft systems operations. Several other schools – in Alaska, Arizona, Florida – are now
Data Links & Communications
A major hurdle preventing the wider deployment of smart phones across the US military may have been overcome. One of the key problems in providing wireless devices to military personnel is securing communications and providing some type of user verification. A research team from Google, George Mason University and the
Events
Continuing the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Quadrocopter Microdrone. The Microdrone is a kamikaze drone equipped with miniguns, an infrared laser beam, and Xbox Kinect-
Business
Northrop Grumman Corporation will be signing four memoranda of understanding (MOU) with its Korean industry partners on Tuesday, Oct. 18, during the Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition at the Seoul Airport in South Korea. The MOU signings will enable the Northrop Grumman Korea Global Hawk team – composed of Northrop
Business
The Boeing Company has announced that it has created a new division to better align the company’s Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities. The new Electronic & Mission Systems (E&MS) division will operate within the Network and Space Systems business unit and include
Payloads
An enterprising young computer engineer, Jonas Pfeil, who recently graduated with an M.Sc. from the Technical University of Berlin, will present his 'Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera' as the Emerging Technologies demonstration at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2011. Panoramic photography creates fascinating images. Very wide angle images are closer
Testing
On 16 September, ESG Elektroniksystem-und-Logistik-GmbH together with Swiss UAV AG and the German Federal Police successfully conducted experimental flights with the Unmanned Mission Avionics Test Helicopter (UMAT) from a Federal Police ship in the Baltic Sea. With these flights, the companies continued their analyses and verifications on
Data Links & Communications
Alion Science and Technology, an employee-owned technology solutions company, has won a $5.4 million award from the Air Force Spectrum Management Office (AFSMO) to analyze the feasibility of relocation to alternative RF bands. As the federal government plans to reallocate radio frequency (RF) spectrum to the commercial sector,
Payloads
Spotted in the exhibit booth at AUSA belonging to the Rapid Response/Irregular Warfare Directorate -- a division of the Office of The Secretary of Defence -- sat a new unmanned aircraft called Remora. It is in fact a guided bomb, which is designed to be dropped by another tactical UAS. It