Testing
Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced the start of system tests of a new Multi-Function Active Sensor (MFAS) being developed here for use by the U.S. Navy onboard the MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS). The MFAS is a 360-degree field-of-regard
Commercial
Gang Yu Corp introduced the AI Rider, a system based on a six-rotor unmanned aircraft weighing about 1,450 grammes, during Secutech, an international security exhibition held in Taipei last week. It is Taiwan’s first indigenous unmanned vehicle for aerial photography, hoping to break into a market that
Propulsion
AME Unmanned Air Systems announced the successful first flight of the Fury 1500 Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (STUAS) powered by a heavy-fuel engine. The successful flight occurred April 5 at the Fort Hunter Liggett range on California's central coast. This latest upgrade to the Fury, developed
Military
A Navy Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system has been shipped to the Central Command operating area to support Army and coalition forces in Afghanistan, the Navy announced last Thursday. The system, under development by the Naval Air Systems Command to operate from ships, will be land-based in CENTCOM for
Military
Express, a local English TV channel in Islamabad on Friday quoted unidentified U.S. military officials as saying that Pakistan will be given 85 small RAVEN UAS to fight the militants in the country's northwest tribal areas. The news came shortly after the U.S. army chief Mike
Testing
Boeing’s A160T Hummingbird unmanned helicopter could be flying again soon. It has been grounded since September after an aircraft crashed in Belize during a demonstration deployment with U.S. Special Operations Command. The cause of the crash has not been released but was related to the tail rotor, says
Testing
The Navy programme office in charge of the service's newest unmanned aerial system is looking to integrate Air Force-centric hardware into that aircraft, as a way to close a critical collection gap in ongoing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Members of the Navy's Persistent Maritime
Accidents
A Shadow unmanned aircraft had an equipment emergency last Wednesday morning, causing its recovery parachute to successfully deploy and eventually bring the aircraft down on private property west of Fort Huachuca, according to the installation’s spokeswoman. There was no environmental damage, no fire and no injuries to anyone on
Military
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced at a Pentagon news conference yesterday that the US would deploy armed Predator UAS to attack Libya government forces . Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Cartwright said that the first Predator mission in Libya had been scheduled for Thursday night
Commercial
Chris Anderson is founder of DIY Drones, the largest amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicle community on the web with 15,000 members, and of 3D Robotics, the commercial arm that serves the DIY Drones online store – “The Amateur UAV Superstore”. Chris is also editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, and wrote
Military
AeroVironment has announced that it received a firm-fixed-price contract delivery order valued at $11,500,000 for new digital Puma All Environment (AE) unmanned aircraft systems , initial spares packages and training services on April 11, 2011. The items were procured under the existing United States Special Operations Command
Testing
Lockheed Martin ’s Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar, TRACER, has completed flight testing aboard a Predator B MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial System. TRACER is a dual-band (UHF and VHF) synthetic-aperture radar capable of detecting and geo-locating objects that are buried, camouflaged or concealed under foliage.