Business
Germany will decide next year which unmanned aircraft to purchase for its Bundeswehr military forces, a senior defence source told Reuters. This would suggest that it is refusing to bow to pressure from EADS for a quick decision to order its Talarion. The source said that the Bundeswehr would continue
Testing
The US Navy has announced that it will add an aerial refuelling capability to at least one of the two X-47 prototypes sometime in 2014. The decision to add refueling software and equipment was published on the federal government’s business opportunity website Limited by a human being’s
Military
Two different aircraft platforms that fly the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) system, developed by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, have been officially designated by the US Air Force as the E-11A and the EQ-4B. The Northrop Grumman Global Hawk RQ-4Bs modified to host the BACN system have
Electronic Sub-Systems
Norway’s Sensonor Technologies solid state STIM210 Gyro is the world's first gyro entirely based on semiconductor technology in combination with MEMS - Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems. It can now safely be considered as a success, with production currently up to around 250 per week. It is used in
Lighter Than Air
The UAS Team of the Battlespace Modeling and Simulation Division from NAVAIR at Patuxent River Naval Air Station brought their remotely piloted “flying fish” last Thursday to a local Kindergarten in Leonardtown. With their shark and clown fish “Air Swimmers” in tow, Gary Swain, along with civil servant Tim Hurley
Military
The US Navy has disclosed that a classified intelligence payload is now flying on the Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout. Northrop was awarded a $1 million contract earlier this month to integrate a payload called Twister on the MQ-8B - an unmanned helicopter based on the Sikorsky S330 - according
Testing
Northrop Grumman posted this video of the first "cruise" flight of the US Navy's X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstration aircraft. During this flight, conducted Sept. 30, 2011 flight, the aircraft's landing gear was raised and lowered for the first time, a key
Testing
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems has announced that the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, UAS Test Directorate has established and demonstrated a dedicated Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System for test and evaluation purposes."Our Marine Corps customers have utilized Shadow systems in operational areas including Afghanistan and Iraq for
Research
A New Mexico State University psychology professor is studying unmanned aircraft and the pilots who operate them in order to create guidelines for the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies.These guidelines will establish methods so that unmanned aircraft systems can be used safely in personal, commercial and academic situations.
Military
South Korea is moving rapidly into the demonstrator phase for a stealth combat unmanned aircraft that it does not expect to field until late in the next decade. With the KAI, the defence ministry’s designers have chosen a configuration much like those of proposed Western aircraft. Western countries such
Testing
The Center for Remote Integration in Montana hosted a flight demonstration of the Sandstorm UAS on a remote airstrip south of Columbia Falls on Tuesday. This was the second flight demonstration of the aircraft, after that in Oklahoma in August. About 45 people were on hand to witness the flight,
Events
The Navy-Industry International Dialogue (NIID) provides a Navy-Industry-Attaché-Foreign Procurement Group forum to address issues involving security cooperation and sea service concepts and programmes that help drive future capabilities for international maritime partnerships. This conference will focus on Unmanned Aerial Systems management and capabilities. The Navy is