Military
Exhibiting for the first time at the Paris Air Show, UVision, a small company from Israel, specializing in special purpose UAS, showed its WASP - a personal, mini UAS that has performance characteristics of a missile, with the versatility, user control and reusability of a UAS. UVision has built the WASP
Events
OAO Gorizont (Russia) and Schiebel (Austria) have joined forces to deliver an Unmanned Aircraft System in Russia based on the S-100 unmanned helicopter. One is on show at the International Maritime Defence Show IMDS 2011 in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 29 June to 3 July, and another will soon
Business
The Raytheon Company has completed deliveries of its miniature military-grade Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) transponders to Korean Air Lines as the Republic of Korea’s top air carrier develops unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The small transponders are designed to fly on UAS and smaller helicopters and deliver all
Military
The U.S. Army is participating in a U.S. Navy analysis of alternatives (AOA) to determine whether both services’ requirements for vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft can be met by a joint programme. The Army has provided an addendum to the Navy-led study “to see if
Testing
The RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System conducted its first-ever test flight under the direction of NAWC Aircraft Division’s UAS Test Directorate at Webster Field, Md., June 21. "Having a RQ-7B at the UAS Test Directorate allows for the test and evaluation of system enhancements and
Payloads
Deposition Sciences, Inc., manufacturer of durable thin film optical coatings, announces the design of a wide-angle broadband anti-reflection (BBAR) coating for gimbal windows and detector assemblies. The highly specialized coatings address the needs of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for a highly durable, angle-insensitive (FOV 0-30 degrees)
Electronic Sub-Systems
EADS Astrium has deployed a software system for measuring antenna radio frequencies that utilises OpenViz data visualization software from Advanced Visual Systems. The system, known as EADS Astrium Advanced Antenna Measurement Software (AAMS), allows fully automated testing of antenna systems installed in ground vehicles, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles and
Military
The US Army expects to issue a "request for information" imminently for a vertical-takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft, Army officials said recently.As an interim step before it decides to buy a new aircraft, the Army is experimenting with A-160 Hummingbirds, 35-feet long unmanned
Commercial
Raytheon Company has delivered the first of three SeaVue expanded mission capability radars to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the record time of just six months. This radar will be installed on U.S. Customs and Border Protection's second Guardian unmanned aircraft system, a maritime
Military
Air Force officials have released the criteria for basing of the regular Air Force MQ-1/9 remote split operations ground control stations. The basing criteria, announced on June 22, were approved by the secretary and chief of staff of the Air Force and include factors such as mission requirements,
Testing
The world imagined in a 1960 Science-Fiction TV Series took a step closer to reality with the announcment by Moller International, Inc., the developer of the Rotapower line of rotary engines and the Aerobot line of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, that the Federal Aviation Administration has accepted its application for
Propulsion
Austrian firm IAT21 (the Austrian Innovative Aeronautical Technology Research Company) describes its free-floating UAS project D-Dalus as, "a totally new form of airborne auto-motion". It hovers and flies without wings or rotors. It uses four, mechanically-linked turbines to provide propulsion. They're all