Control Stations
Plans by the U.S. military to consolidate its numbers of ground control stations for unmanned aircraft systems may be moving forward with the announcement Tuesday of a contract to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. to integrate a Universal Ground Control Station. The U.S. Army Contracting Command at Redstone
Events
The Red River Valley Research Corridor is holding its 5th Annual Unmanned Aviation Systems Action Summit at the Alerus Center, Grand Forks, North Dakota, on June 2-3, 2011. It will focus on developing and strengthening the Nation’s burgeoning unmanned systems industry and advancing the call to develop responses
Events
Azerbaijan Defence Industry Minister, Yavar Jamalov, announced at IDEF-2011 in Istanbul that the Defence Industry Ministry of Azerbaijan plans to produce 60 unmanned aircraft by the end of the year. “A UAS producing plant has been launched. The plant produces two types of unmanned aircraft. The Ministry has placed
Military
Dynamics Research Corporation announced that it has been awarded two delivery orders with a combined value of $24.5 million for a base year with an additional option year period of performance. These contracts allow DRC to continue its efforts supporting mission-critical services in conjunction with the Predator/Reaper
Events
President Abdullah Gül officially opened the 10th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF'11) at İstanbul's Tüyap Convention Center in Büyükçekmece on Tuesday. During his remarks Gül emphasized the significance of hosting this fair in a city that connects two continents and has become an important centre in
Testing
The University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab, has been working on getting groups of the robots to fly together in formation. Just like with a formation of fighter jets, there's a leader robot in each squad along with several follower robots. The followers have just two jobs:
Business
Alenia Aeronautica is looking for a partner to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system to rival the Franco-British venture announced earlier this year by BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation. Giuseppe Giordo, chief executive of the Finmeccanica subsidiary, said the Italian airframe manufacturer is happy to "
Events
AeroSeeker launched its highly portable, four-rotor, unmanned aircraft with high quality video surveillance and aerial video streaming capabilities at the International Defence Fair in Singapore. Engineered according to the needs of both military and civil users, the flagship model, AERO-405 can be easily carried and set up, ready
Military
Four contractors will compete for a $200 million US Air Force programme to develop and produce an electronic attack (EA) pod that will be installed on unmanned aircraft systems and manned aircraft. The EA pod would be installed first on any of 24 Block 5 versions of the General Atomics
Testing
The V750, China's largest unmanned helicopter, had its first successful flight on May, 7, marking China's first entry into the field of mid-sized unmanned helicopters. The V750 is re-adapted from the B2B double-seated manned helicopter. It has a 757-kilogram take-off weight,
Military
Military users will be able to get real-time high-definition video, view infrared imagery, use radar and even listen in on communications signals – all at the same time – using a new intelligence-gathering aircraft system unveiled by Northrop Grumman Corporation. Firebird offers a large internal payload bay and an
Commercial
This is what footage shot from a Parrot AR.Drone really looks like... ! It turns out that the footage that we published last week from Rupert Murdoch's 'The Daily', was indeed professional, as reader David Wray suspected. When we contacted Perspective Aerials about their involvment in