Military
The US Army’s Future Vertical Lift cross-functional team wants to integrate new unmanned aerial systems into its family of rotary-wing aircraft, according to the group’s director. The Future Vertical Lift program is a family of rotary-wing aircraft intended to replace the Army's UH-60 Black Hawk, AH-64
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In 2001, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works secretly flew a flying wing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with a roughly 9m (30ft) wingspan with modular wings and a bulbous fuselage as a technology demonstrator for a family of aircraft. As the company prepares to celebrate the Skunk Works’ 75th anniversary in
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AeroVironment, Inc, has announced at the AUSA Global Force Symposium (booth 1429) that the company is now taking orders for its new Puma 3 small unmanned aircraft system. “We are in constant communication with our customers to ensure they have the most innovative and advanced small drones to successfully complete
VTOL
Italy’s Leonardo has teamed with Air Affairs Australia to present its AWHERO rotary unmanned air system (RUAS) for the RAN’s future Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) fleet. The company has been briefing Australian government and industry, with briefings set to conclude at the end of this week. Leonardo said
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Schiebel has successfully demonstrated the heavy fuel variant of the CAMCOPTER S-100 Unmanned Air System as part of its customer acceptance program with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Under the directive of the Navy Minor Project (NMP) 1942 to procure a vertical takeoff and landing Maritime Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System
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A prototype of South Korea's indigenously developed Korean Unmanned System (KUS)-FS medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been revealed undergoing flight testing. Built by Korean Air Aerospace Division (KAL-ASD) on behalf of the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD), the KUS-FS made its maiden flight
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Israeli startup APG has unveiled the Peres, an innovative family of UAVs, with breakthrough technology, operations, and logistics. The Peres UAV can fly horizontally and vertically, transitioning from vertical take-off to horizontal flight and from horizontal flight to vertical landing - thanks to APG’s patented feat of engineering. The
Business
Egypt is to acquire and field the AeroVironment (AV) RQ-20B Puma II AE tactical unmanned aircraft system (UAS), the US Department of Defense (DoD) disclosed on 16 March. A Foreign Military Sales (FMS) deal for an undisclosed number of systems valued at USD 9.1 million has been awarded by
VTOL
Russia has started tests of a new unmanned helicopter that can perform both reconnaissance and combat functions for use by the Russian army in Syria and other hot zones, according to Rostec, one of Russia’s largest state and defense corporations (and the designer of the new model). Representatives of
Software
The US Army has eliminated the need to do lengthy pre-flight checks for its unmanned aerial vehicles by applying artificial intelligence algorithms on top of existing software programs. “They call it an unmanned vehicle because there’s no pilot sitting up in it, but the pilot it is sitting up
Training
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) graduated its first indigenously trained unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) pilots on 2 March. It announced three days later that the five new pilots had received their wings following about two years of training at the 401 Flying Training School (FTS) in Kaduna. After completing an
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U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim turned over a Scan Eagle Unmanned Aerial System to Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana during a transfer ceremony at Villamor Air Base, Pasay City on March 13. Ambassador Kim and officials from the Joint U.S. Military Assistance Group delivered this