Military
Iran has shown Russia, American UAS that it shot down over the Gulf, Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hadjizadeh was quoted as saying on Tuesday. "Russian experts requested to see these drones and they looked at both the downed UAS and the models made by the
Commercial
The Indian Government plans to deploy unmanned aircraft in the Maoist-infested areas to gather real time intelligence and help the security forces counter Maoists attacks effectively. The National Technical Research Organization (NTRO) is jostling to get access to Aviation Research Centre's (ARC) airbase in Orissa to test
Business
Northrop Grumman Corporation has signed a Global Supply Chain (GSC) Deed with the Australian Department of Defence so the two entities can work together to identify opportunities for Australian industry to compete within the company's global supply chain and those of its major supply partners. The deed is
Payloads
SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, been selected by Elbit Systems to supply its Gabbiano radar family for installation aboard Elbit Systems’ Unmanned Aircraft Systems. The Gabbiano T20 radar will be installed aboard the Hermes 450 while the most powerful version of the Gabbiano family, the T200, has been chosen for
Electronic Sub-Systems
Northrop Grumman has contracted Thinklogical —a manufacturers of high performance fibre optic KVM solutions—to provide key infrastructure systems for use in the U.S. Navy’s “broad area maritime surveillance” (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system. Under the contract, the Thinklogical is to supply its VelocityKVM and VX Router System (the
Military
African peacekeepers fighting al-Qaida’s allies in Somalia are about to get their first UAS, courtesy of the Pentagon. Under a proposed $45 million counter-terrorism package, Uganda and Burundi, two major contributors to the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia will get four small unarmed Raven UAS. But
Testing
Northrop Grumman and Cassidian have confirmed that the Euro Hawk test-bed, the German version of the RQ-4 Global Hawk, will fly to Germany for payload integration and testing. The aircraft will be ferried to Germany as soon as July 2011, said Northrop Grumman. The test aircraft, a modified
Military
The UAE was seeking armed Predators from the US in 2004, secret US diplomatic cables revealed. Although UAE officials claimed they needed them “to control [the UAE`s] long land and maritime borders”, it is not altogether clear from the cables and can only be speculated why the Emirati authorities
Accidents
An International Security Assistance Force remotely piloted aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan yesterday. The crash site is secure and the aircraft is being recovered. The cause of the crash is under investigation, but initial reports indicate there was no insurgent activity in the area at the time. Source: ISAF Joint
Commercial
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using its Predator B unmanned aircraft system to provide streaming video of the flood zones along the Mississippi River.In addition to video, CBP is providing synthetic apeture radar (SAR) mapping and “change analysis”—such as levee integrity—along areas affected by
Commercial
Scheibel’s Camcopter S-100 recently performed high-voltage power line monitoring flights for several days in Austria. At an average airspeed of 30 knots (55 km/h) also the poles, surge arresters and isolators were inspected. High-definition images taken with the L3 Wescam MX-10 payload were transmitted
Test Ranges
It seems that the locals do not share the official view about the developments at ParcAberporth, as this reader's letter to the local newspaper suggests: "Reports about the CAA allowing ACP to enable UAS to fly over a large swathe of Wales cannot pass without comment. Remarks