Electronic Sub-Systems
Goodrich Corporation’s ISR Systems’ Princeton team (formerly Sensors Unlimited, Inc.) has introduced the smallest SWaP (size weight and power) short wave infrared camera for unmanned vehicles. The 640 x 512 pixel (25µm pitch) camera weighs 120g (less than four and a half ounces) with the 23mm f/1.15
Electronic Sub-Systems
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. is now providing a SWaP-optimized hyper-spectral image processing and storage subsystem for use in multi-INT wide area surveillance equipment on UAS. The subsystem will locate individual adversaries and enemy tactical communications. The system’s design combines two configurations of Mercury’s PowerBlock 15
Military
US Naval Special Warfare Command this month will commission a new active-duty group that will concentrate the component’s UAS, underwater systems and robotic programmes and personnel under a single entity. The establishment of Naval Special Warfare Group 10 reflects the increasing importance of UAS in the elite forces.
Military
Israel Aerospace Industries has offered to sell Azerbaijan its Heron 1 and Searcher 2 unmanned aircraft systems as part of "comprehensive solutions" to answer the nation's defence needs. Made during a recent visit to Azerbaijan by an IAI delegation, the offer was prompted by the potential
Military
The US Department of Defence has released details on major defence acquisition programme cost, schedule, and performance changes since the September 2010 reporting period. Global Hawk is 23% and the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals programmes is 16%, over budget. This information is based on the Selected
Electronic Sub-Systems
Aeryon Labs has announced the VideoZoom10x payload for the Aeryon Scout Micro VTOL UAS - a 1.2 kg man-packable UAS. With the ability to detect a human from over 2km away and identify someone from over 300m, the VideoZoom10x payload instantly delivers high-resolution, real-time tactical intelligence to
Military
Two US soldiers were killed by a Hellfire missile fired from a U.S. Air Force Predator last week, in what appears to be the first "friendly fire" incident involving an unmanned aircraft. They were part of a Marine unit moving in to reinforce fellow Marines under heavy
Commercial
Over the weekend, Japanese energy company TEPCO released new footage taken by unmanned helicopters. The first clip is mainly overhead views with some scary vapours being emitted at one stage: The second goes into one of the buildings and shows the total devastation inside one of the reactor buildings:
Commercial
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Air and Marine has played a crucial role in responding to the severe flooding of the Red River in the upper Midwest. CBP unmanned aerial systems began providing imagery around the Red River Valley area to the National Weather Service
Business
Insitu Pacific announced recently that it will be the new Australian distributor of iRobot Corporation's line of unmanned ground vehicles . The new relationship will simplify logistics and training for Australian and New Zealand customers seeking to acquire and operate the operationally proven UGVs provided by iRobot's
Commercial
An aerial remote sensing system studied by Oregon State University may provide a new way for the state's nurseries to check inventories. OSU Willamette Valley trials are underway in conjunction with University of Florida and University of Arkansas researchers at three Oregon nurseries. Using unmanned multi-rotor aircraft,
Testing
Northrop Grumman's Fire Scout achieved a single-day endurance flight record of 18 hours in U.S. Navy anti-piracy operations. The vertical takeoff and landing tactical UAV, which provides intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, was launched from the USS Halyburton, part of the Navy's 5th