Electronic Sub-Systems
The U.S. Army will use a General Atomics’ MQ-1C Gray Eagle this spring to flight-test a new system of multiple sensors that can be controlled by ground troops or aircraft crews. The Triclops system adds a sensor under each wing to the fuselage sensor carried by UAS.
Data Links & Communications
Russia has spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying Israeli unmanned aircraft systems (and to acquire technology and components for joint UAS production. But at present these UAS are no more than expensive flying TV-cameras, the targeting information they produce is mostly useless, since there are no precise GLONASS
Commercial
Carinthian Tech Research (Austria), Schiebel GmbH (Austria), and Quest Innovations B.V. (The Netherlands) have developed an aerial multispectral imaging system to monitor the soil composition of agricultural land. The system is both faster and provides full sampling of the area to be examined, than the current practice of taking
Electronic Sub-Systems
Insitu Pacific and SELEX Galileo have announced that they are collaborating on rapidly integrating SELEX Galileo's high-resolution synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) PicoSAR into the Integrator UAS. Equipped with PicoSAR's active electronically scanned array (AESA) and ground moving target indicator (GMTI) technology, Integrator will deliver the
Electronic Sub-Systems
Kansas State University at Salina's unmanned aircraft programme is the first to use the XPS-TR transponder developed by Sagetech Corporation, which has shattered size records with a footprint smaller than that of a standard business card. The Sagetech transponder is special because it can fit easily on
Electronic Sub-Systems
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems announced yesterday that it has successfully completed an unmanned flight demonstration of a Small Sense and Avoid System (SSAASy) on a Shadow 200 UAS. The Shadow system has clocked up more than 600,000 flight hours, the majority of which have taken place in Iraq and
Electronic Sub-Systems
Trident Systems has won a $49.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to run the small UAS component of the Special Surveillance Programme (SSP) to detect and target terrorist forces engaged in planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs), sabotage, and attacking U.S. and allied military bases. The contract
Electronic Sub-Systems
Rockwell Collins announced at IDEX that its Athena family of flight control and navigation systems recently exceeded 1 million flight hours on several UAS performing surveillance operations primarily in the Middle East. “Due to the high quality of these guidance systems, Rockwell Collins’ control and navigation solutions are on more
Electronic Sub-Systems
MicroPilot has combined three of its premier MP2128g autopilots into the first commercially available triple‐redundancy unmanned aerial vehicle autopilot. The MP21283X is now available. Loaded with multiple communication links, back-up high current drivers, backup power supplies, and independently generated servo signals, this autopilot sets new reliability standards within
Electronic Sub-Systems
FLIR Systems, Inc. has reported strong demand for the Cobalt, Star SAFIRE and TALON classes of stabilized multi-sensor airborne systems for integration on UAS across the world. Since January, the company has received orders for more than 130 airborne systems for a variety of applications and platforms in the
Electronic Sub-Systems
Northrop Grumman has announced that it has been awarded a $25.6 million contract to develop a UAS sense and avoid capability for BAMS in support of the Navy and U.S. Air Force. The work will be carried out by the Aerospace sector's Battle Management & Engagement
Electronic Sub-Systems
IAI presented a new airborne navigation system called TNF-Tamam Navigation FOG (Fibre Optic Gyro) at Aero India. TNF is a lightweight, airborne navigation and attitude heading reference system (AHRS) for use in UAS, target drones, small aircraft, and helicopters. It is also used for accurate targeting applications (inertial navigation