Electronic Sub-Systems
Lockheed Martin is demonstrating its full range of ISR and battlefield communication technologies at the Empire Challenge 11 exercises at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. It will feature Lockheed's Combat Edge, Vehicle Optics Sensor System II, MONAX, Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod, Desert Hawk III Unmanned Aircraft System, TacWarrior and Stratus
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L-3 Mission Integration announced that it is demonstrating an advanced suite of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems providing fully integrated, collaborative airborne networked multi-intelligence capability at the U.S. Joint Forces Command's Empire Challenge 2011, which runs through June 3 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Empire
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Raytheon Company is showcasing its advanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) visualization and analytic capabilities system, Sentinel Thunder, during this year's Empire Challenge May 23 to June 3 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Sentinel Thunder provides a mobile micro-cloud with advanced ISR visualization and analytics that is scalable
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Chris Anderson shows off his open source UAS developed by the online community at DIYDrones at the annual Maker Faire held San Mateo, California last weekend on the outskirts of Silicon Valley. Organized by the staff of MAKE magazine, makezine.com and craftzine.com, Maker Faire is a newfangled fair
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Firebird optionally piloted systems, RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems, and Desert Hawk unmanned aircraft systemsare among the technologies being tested during U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Empire Challenge 2011 demonstration. The demonstration kicked off May 23 and continues through June 3, bringing together more
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More about the Maveric , which was on display at the SOFIC 2011 (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference) in Tampa Florida last week, in this video which was posted on the Defense Review Channel on YouTube. The Maveric has a flexible monolithic wing made from carbon fibre and rip-stop nylon,
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This video is now available of the Hyperion, which was first presented at the University of Colorado Aerospace Engineering Design Symposium on April 15, which we wrote about earlier in March. It serves as a test-bed for research and development in the following focus areas: aerodynamics, structures and materials,
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Arcturus is displaying its new T-20 at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, Florida. The T-20 has a 17-foot wingspan, putting it in the so-called Tier II class of unmanned aircraft. The company claims the device can carry up to 65 pounds of payload,
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Skyblade IV, an unmanned aircraft developed by home-grown firm ST Aerospace and DSO National Laboratories, the national defence research body, was on show at the region's largest naval exhibition, Imdex Asia, which opened in Singapore on Wednesday. Some army troops have started using the Skyblade III, which
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The only aviation exhibition (civil & military) permitted in Beijing, held once every two years by the China State Council, is being held this year on 21-24 September 2011, at the China National Convention Center (CNCC), Beijing, P.R. China. With its longest history in Asia Pacific region, Aviation
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Turkish Aerospace Industries used the IDEF show in Istanbul to exhibit its Sivrisinek/Mosquito unmanned helicopter for the first time in public. It is currently in flight test. First flown earlier this year and developed using company funds, the vertical take-off and landing Mosquito is being pitched initially to
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Turkish manufacturer Kale-Baykar is close to securing the first international sale of its Gozcu mini unmanned aircraft with Qatar apparently interested in acquiring the system. "Our negotiations are on final," Kale-Baykar general manager Haluk Bayraktar said during the IDEF show in Istanbul. The company plans to