Military
Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., will showcase the Skylark I-LE Block II’s capabilities at next week’s trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 6-9, 2012.The Skylark I-LE Block II offers cutting edge technology designed to assist warfighters, homeland security
Business
Singular Aircraft has announced that it is developing a low cost unmanned, amphibious, twin-engined aircraft able to land and take off from short unpaved airstrips & water.It is designed for fire-fighting, agricultural, transport and surveillance with MTOW of 3.500Kg and Payload of 2.200Kg. The aircraft is currently
Electronic Systems
Gill Sensors, a developer of specialist non-contact inductive position sensors, has announced the availability of its next-generation micro position sensor technology for robotics and unmanned systems applications. The new electronic sensor platform has already been designed into a number of custom micro position sensors for specialist applications and has recently
Lighter Than Air
Some of the major wireless carriers and public safety organizations are shooting down an idea by the Federal Communications Commission that would allow the launch of communications-carrying UAS or other aircraft to act as temporary links when telecommunications go down in a disaster. AT&T, Sprint and the Association
Military
U.S. Marine Corps officials have extended the deployment of the K-MAX Cargo. The Marine Corps supplies forward operating bases with K-MAX, rather than with a ground convoy or manned aircraft, to reduce the threat posed to personnel by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). K-MAX Cargo, jointly designed and developed by
Military
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is offering an upgraded version of its best-selling unmanned air system (UAS), with the Heron NG to carry an enhanced multi-sensor payload. Representing the fourth "spiral" development of the Heron, the NG has been designed to more effectively meet the operational requirements of IAI&
News
Tech Source, Inc. has unveiled the low power Condor VC 100x H.264 video capture and compression card, designed to ease the video compression challenges in unmanned aircraft and in other surveillance, image detection and video recording applications. Selwyn L. Henriques, President and CEO of Tech Source Inc., said: "
News
Lockheed Martin released the first official teaser image of its Sea Ghost jet-powered UAS. Along with previously disclosed designs from rivals Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Atomics, the Sea Ghost will go head-to-head for a Navy contract to put fast, stealthy, missile- and bomb-armed UAS on the decks of aircraft
News
Global positioning system (GPS) technology is everywhere — and Cornell researchers have known for years that it can be hacked, or as they call it, “spoofed.” The best defence, they say, is to create countermeasures that unscrupulous GPS spoofers can not deceive. A Cornell University release reports that researchers led by
Commercial
A new method of mapping geothermal energy is taking flight in Montana - Dewhurst Group LLC, a geothermal exploration company with offices in Montana City, is developing sensors fixed aboard small unmanned helicopters to survey geothermal sources from the air. Project engineers led a demonstration Tuesday behind Montana State Hospital
Commercial
Nearly 100 university students in 15 teams from around the world will be competing next week at UND to see who has the best unmanned aircraft.The challenge: design an unmanned aircraft that can fly undetected into a simulated enemy compound, and find and retrieve a small flash drive within
Military
British Royal Air Force personnel operated American UAS over Libya last year in support of the NATO mission there, the Ministry of Defence said last Thursday. While the American use of unmanned aircraft in Libya was previously known — a US Predator took part in the airstrike that hit a convoy