Military
The US Army has released an RFI "to support the Army development of the MRMP acquisition strategy and to inform the collaborative Army and Navy Medium Range Maritime UAS (MRMUAS) Analysis of Alternatives (AoA)." MRMUAS is the Navy's planned follow-on to the MQ-8 Fire
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Exhibiting for the first time at the Paris Air Show, UVision, a small company from Israel, specializing in special purpose UAS, showed its WASP - a personal, mini UAS that has performance characteristics of a missile, with the versatility, user control and reusability of a UAS. UVision has built the WASP
Military
The U.S. Army is participating in a U.S. Navy analysis of alternatives (AOA) to determine whether both services’ requirements for vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft can be met by a joint programme. The Army has provided an addendum to the Navy-led study “to see if
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The US Army expects to issue a "request for information" imminently for a vertical-takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft, Army officials said recently.As an interim step before it decides to buy a new aircraft, the Army is experimenting with A-160 Hummingbirds, 35-feet long unmanned
Control Stations
Air Force officials have released the criteria for basing of the regular Air Force MQ-1/9 remote split operations ground control stations. The basing criteria, announced on June 22, were approved by the secretary and chief of staff of the Air Force and include factors such as mission requirements,
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Northrop Grumman is pitching its MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system to the Indian navy. Earlier this year the company responded to an Indian request for information for a high-altitude, long-endurance UAS issued in October 2010, said an industry source. In US Navy service
Testing
A decade-long investment in the unmanned, long-endurance A160 Hummingbird helicopter is set to enter a final proving phase at the end of the month. Boeing plans to deliver the first of 20 new production aircraft assembled in Mesa, Arizona by the end of June to a flight-test
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Iran has shown Russia, American UAS that it shot down over the Gulf, Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hadjizadeh was quoted as saying on Tuesday. "Russian experts requested to see these drones and they looked at both the downed UAS and the models made by the
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African peacekeepers fighting al-Qaida’s allies in Somalia are about to get their first UAS, courtesy of the Pentagon. Under a proposed $45 million counter-terrorism package, Uganda and Burundi, two major contributors to the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia will get four small unarmed Raven UAS. But
Testing
Northrop Grumman and Cassidian have confirmed that the Euro Hawk test-bed, the German version of the RQ-4 Global Hawk, will fly to Germany for payload integration and testing. The aircraft will be ferried to Germany as soon as July 2011, said Northrop Grumman. The test aircraft, a modified
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The UAE was seeking armed Predators from the US in 2004, secret US diplomatic cables revealed. Although UAE officials claimed they needed them “to control [the UAE`s] long land and maritime borders”, it is not altogether clear from the cables and can only be speculated why the Emirati authorities
Business
Boeing has received a $480,000 study contract from the U.S. Navy to support pre-Milestone A activities including development of a concept of operations, an analysis of alternatives, and an investigation of potential material solutions for the Navy's Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS)