Military
When HMCS Charlottetown deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for Operation ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR, she took with her a potent surveillance and reconnaissance capability that is new to Canadian warships: the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, a small, low-cost, long-endurance UAS built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing. Among her many tasks during this
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An unmanned aircraft is likely to be pressed into service in the Visakha agency and the border districts of the Indian state to help in intelligence gathering on a real-time basis. The UAS base will be set up at Madurapuddi near Rajahmundry. A senior official of Special Intelligence Branch (SIB)
Testing
Fire Scout Over Frigate McInerney - Photo:MC2 Alan Gragg, US NavyReservists are at the controls of the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter for the aircraft’s deployment to Western Africa. As part of an effort to determine manning for the unmanned aircraft, reserve officers will fly Fire Scout and
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RQ-4B Global Hawk Block 40 Photo: Northrop Grumman The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed on Friday to acquire its first fleet of unarmed unmanned aircraft under a long-sought deal that defence officials said would help fill a gap in alliance surveillance capabilities exposed by last year's military campaign
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MQM-107D Streaker The North Korean military is developing unmanned "suicide" attack aircraft to target South Korean troops on the northwestern islands, a South Korean Army source claimed Sunday. The South Korean military in turn plans to procure all-weather unmanned tactical dirigibles capable of carrying out reconnaissance missions even
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Elbit Systems has expanded its portfolio of payloads with the recent launch of a Hermes 450 and Hermes 900 UAS hyper-spectral payload with new intelligence capabilities. Based on Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop’s proprietary research, the unique, innovative hyper-spectral imaging technology enables simultaneous imaging of the region of interest at
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Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, at an Air Force Association event in Washington on February 2, previewed more details of the USAF portion of the fiscal 2013 budget request that comes out February 13. “We will retire the RQ-4 Global Hawk block 30 fleet, which is about 18 aircraft” Donley
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The Marine Corps’ RQ-7 Shadow can’t handle the intense summer heat in Afghanistan, forcing units to rely instead on smaller aircraft for most daytime missions, according to an internal review of air operations in the war zone. Published in October by the Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned, the
Business
Insitu, Inc. is being awarded a $41,090,719 ceiling priced modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0061) to exercise an option for operational and maintenance services in support of the ScanEagle unmanned aerial systems. These services will provide electro-optical/infra red and mid-wave infrared imagery in support of
VTOL
Lockheed Martin just posted this new video about the K-Max deployment to Afghanistan. Within 75 days of being shipped out it was undertaking its first resupply mission. The company claims less than 2.5 maintenance man-hours are required per flight hour, and that the operating cost is less than $1,
Events
Elbit Systems' Hermes 900 multi-mission UAS will make its first real-size appearance at the upcoming Singapore Air Show, which takes place from February 14 to 19, 2012. The aircraft will be displayed at the Static Display Area together with the following payloads: * DCoMPASS - Digital Compact Multi-Purpose Advanced Stabilized
Military
Iran claims that it is set to unveil a new domestically-built high performance unmanned aircraft. Mehdi Iraji, the aeronautics engineer in charge of the project, said on Sunday that the new remote-controlled aircraft, called A1, has a maximum flight ceiling of 10,000 feet (3,000 meters). It is capable