Military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced the successful first flight of its new Avenger Extended Range (ER) aircraft, an extended range version of its multi-mission jet-powered Predator C Avenger which has accumulated over 13,000 flight hours to date. The flight occurred on October 27th at the company’s
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An $11.6 billion defense request that President Barack Obama sent Congress includes funds to buy more lethal drones for U.S. commandos fighting Islamic State and other terrorists as well as networks to counter the pilotless aircraft those groups are now using. The extra war-related funding requested Thursday for
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The Heron I has flown its first operational mission in Mali on behalf of the German military as part of a contract with Airbus Defence and Space. The first operational mission took place on 1 November from Gao airport and lasted five hours and 40 minutes. Airbus said it occurred
C-UAS
The threat of unmanned aerial systems (UAS’s) to American interests within the continental United States and outside our borders is an ongoing concern. Continued and rapid improvements in technology not only are increasing the availability of these unmanned technologies, but also are: * Allowing greater UAS payloads (i.e., payload
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The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) is showcasing a newly revealed jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) – the Cloud Shadow. Marketed as a high-altitude and long-endurance (HALE) UAV, the Cloud Shadow can be used for strike as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). The Cloud Shadow possesses a payload
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Not much ever makes it into the general media about Unmanned Aerial Systems like the Lockheed Martin Stalker XE, but two of them were destroyed in accidents in Victoria last week that are now being investigated by the ATSB. Last Monday October 24 one of the three metre wingspan UASs
Business
AAI Corporation was awarded a $206,561,704 cost-plus-fixed-fee foreign military sales (Australia) contract for contractor logistics sustainment services for Shadow RQ-7B unmanned aerial systems. Bids were solicited via the Internet with one received. Work will be performed in Hunt Valley, Maryland, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 31,
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ScanEagle, the gorge-made robotic aircraft that has logged almost one million hours of flight, has landed in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum collection. The most widely known product of Bingen-based Insitu, the ScanEagle X200 was inducted into the museum earlier this month. Insitu officials believe the ScanEagle,
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AeroVironment, Inc. has announced the receipt of a contract from the Netherlands Ministry of Defence on October 14 for small UAS, upgrades and support services totaling $10,321,375. Delivery is anticipated within six months. The contract encompasses AeroVironment’s entire family of fixed wing small UAS and includes Digital
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Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has claimed to have developed a 'suicide drone' capable of delivering explosives to blow up targets both at sea and on land. The drone is reportedly designed to fly as low as two feet above the water at a speed of around
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A prototype of a hand-launched spy drone weighing roughly 21 ounces has been built at an engineering center in Samara, Russian, a defense industry source told RIA Novosti. "The Cluster Engineering Center in the Samara Region has developed a prototype of a special reconnaissance device based off a new
Testing
The Maneuver Battle Lab hosted the Technical Cooperation Program for a week of testing unmanned aircraft systems at the McKenna Urban Operations Complex Oct. 17-21. Specialists from Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia also participated in the weeklong testing. Keith Singleton, the chief of the unmanned systems team at the