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South Africa is investigating the alleged misappropriation of intellectual property rights belonging to state defense firm Denel, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) confirmed. The IP relates to air-to-air missiles, stand-off weapons, surface target missiles, air defense and unmanned aerial vehicle systems, the SIU told Reuters. “The focus
Commercial
Work will begin next month on Australia’s first residential apartment block to include a vertical take-off and landing space to accommodate flying taxis and delivery drones. Siskas will be the final apartment tower of the Taskers residential development in North Fremantle. The take-off and landing space will
A U.S. Army MQ-1C ER Gray Eagle Extended Range manufactured by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. performed a flight demonstration using a Dynetics GBU-69B Small Glide Munition (SGM) on August 21-22. The SGM is a lightweight munition with increased effective range. “The GE-ER operates at
The Fairey Rotodyne was a 1950s British compound gyroplane designed and built by Fairey Aviation and intended for commercial and military uses. A development of the earlier Gyrodyne, which had established a world helicopter speed record, the Rotodyne featured a tip-jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel
VTOL
The French Armament General Directorate (DGA) announced that Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 is now fully integrated with French Navy Mistral class amphibious helicopter carrier Dixmude. For the first time in Europe, a rotary wing Unmanned Air System (UAS) is fully operational and connected to the defence system of an
Testing
Boeing announced that its Australian subsidiary has used systems developed in that country to enable a pair of unmanned, subscale, jet-powered test aircraft to conduct a semi-autonomous teamed flight for the very first time. This is part of the development of the Airpower Teaming System for the Royal
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Yates Electrospace Corporation has announced the signing of a development contract (USSOCOM-SOF AT&L-ST-14-01-JS79) with the U.S. Special Operations Command entitled “Silent Arrow Airdrop Development”. Silent Arrow is the world’s first production-ready, 1-ton, autonomous cargo aircraft, which delivers up to
Commercial
As haze blanketed large tracts of Southeast Asia last month, office workers with Genting Plantations Bhd in Jakarta were investigating the source of the choking smoke more than a thousand kilometers away. Images collected from drones flying up to 400 meters (about 1,300 feet) above Genting’s oil palms
ZALA unmanned aerial vehicles are now able to carry high-end payloads for remote sensing due to their high load capacity. The most recent development – is a payload with 61 Mp full-sensor camera that brings the aerial imagery up to the next level. The new payload simultaneously delivers large
VTOL
China’s CATIC/AVIC (Pavilion A41-42) is showing a full-scale mock-up of the U8EW rotary-wing unmanned air system (RWUAS) at the Dubai Airshow (Static S8). The type was first shown in the West in model form at the 2018 Singapore airshow. The vehicle was developed by
Testing
NASA recently selected 25 space technologies for flight tests onboard aircraft, high-altitude balloons and suborbital rockets. Stratodynamics is the flight provider for the University of Kentucky project to assess new methods of turbulence detection with forward sensing technologies in stratospheric flight. Currently, significant gaps exist in the detection of
Elbit Systems is launching MAGNI, a fully autonomous and robust Multi-Rotor Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) that is designed to significantly enhance the situational awareness capabilities of mobile forces. Compact and light-weight (2.5kg) MAGNI enables rapid deployment and launch (in less than