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
Events
Flight Technologies was amongst the local companies on hand at the Latin America Aero & Defence 2011 Exhibition in Rio to display their domestic-built UAS. The company had two UAS on display: * Horus-100 - based on the FS-02 AvantVision tactical UAV. The Horus-100 is short-range and
Military
At the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space convention outside Washington, Northrop and the Navy unveiled new details about the X-47B and their schedule to get it flying off a carrier. Rule number one: it’s not “remotely piloted.” Put the phrase “remotely piloted” out of your mind,
Commercial
Brazil's military has outlined requirements, valued at up to $11 billion, to establish two vast new surveillance networks with coverage ranging from the remote and lawless north-west border to the oil fields discovered hundreds of kilometres off the country's eastern coastline. Both programmes would create
Military
Vuzix Corporation announced that it has been awarded a $1 million research contract under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) Programme. The funding will go towards research and development of a next generation holographic optical display system for use by Joint Terminal