Commercial
Unmanned aircraft equipped with specialised imaging devices could monitor the general status of remote gas fields in Russia. Anglo-Russian venture TNK-BP announced it was starting to organize a fleet of aerial drones to monitor its Samotlorskoe gas field in West Siberia. The aircraftwere developed especially for the company
Testing
Boeing has been using Odense Airport in Denmark for test flights of small unmanned aircraft. The tests involved designing new technologies to make unmanned aircraft able to fly more predictably and efficiently. Boeing chose Odense for its test flights, because there is plenty of capacity at the airport and place
Payloads
Harris Corporation is broadening the capabilities of its RF-7800T Situational Awareness Video Receiver (SAVR) to address growing requirements for secure wireless digital intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance video at the tactical edge. Harris has integrated the Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Digital Data Link (SUAS-DDL) waveform with the RF-7800T
Business
Elbit Systems of America, LLC, announced that it purchased from General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products its holdings in UAS Dynamics, LLC, a joint venture established by Elbit and General Dynamics to provide UAS to the U.S. market, thus making Elbit Systems of America the sole owner of UAS
Testing
Raytheon Missile Systems says that it has completed initial flight testing of its smallest air-launched guided weapon aboard a small unmanned aircraft. In a so-called captive-carry test in mid-September, the 12-pound Small Tactical Munition (STM) was flown aboard a Raytheon Cobra unmanned aircraft system at
Military
AVX Aircraft Co., announced that it teamed with BAE Systems to submit a proposal for the planned Medium Range Maritime Unmanned Aerial System. "We think we've got a good proposal from the standpoint of meeting the [Navy] requirements," AVX spokesman Mike Cox said. The two companies
Control Stations
Presagis, a provider of commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) modeling, simulation, and embedded graphics solutions, announced that it has signed a Corporate License Agreement with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. The Agreement will enable a closer and more strategic business arrangement between Presagis and GA-ASI, while governing all future
Commercial
Marine authorities in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning near the North Korea-China border are using an unmanned aircraft to watch illegal activities in waters off North Korea. Since not many countries use UAS for coastal patrols, there is speculation that China wants to monitor North Korean defectors who
Payloads
Researchers at the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered that although graphene makes very good chemical sensors, there was an unexpected “twist”— the sensors are better when the graphene is “worse”—more imperfections improved performance. “This is quite the opposite of what you
Saab Sensis Corporation, a US subsidiary of the defense and security company Saab, is helping to advance several NextGen concepts and technologies through its programme leadership and deployment of tools at the Florida NextGen Test Bed (FTB) in Daytona Beach, Florida. Key projects, including Unmanned Air Systems in the National
Testing
This video shows Schiebel's CAMCOPTER S-100 during a series of flights and trials onboard the French Navy’s new Gowind class OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel), L'ADROIT at the beginning of November. During the four days of operation in the Bay of Biscay, the CAMCOPTER carried
VTOL
South Korea on Wednesday unveiled its latest unmanned aircraft, a tilt-rotor design, claiming it to be the world's fastest. The aircraft was developed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) affiliated with the Ministry of Knowledge Economy in cooperation with private defense companies, a KARI official said.