Accidents
The United States has suspended unmanned aircraft flights over the Seychelles while it investigates a second crash in four months on the archipelago. One of the remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper aircraft crash-landed last week at the main airport on the island of Mahe shortly after taking off on an unspecified
Accidents
After two incidents resulting in crashes, Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout operations are on an 'operational pause' for the indefinite future. One aircraft was damaged on 30 March after landing in the ocean. The second aircraft crashed in Afghanistan on 6 April, according to an International Security Assistance
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The first CIA RQ-170 Sentinel mission over Iran took place more than three years ago when the aircraft penetrated more than 600 miles inside the country, captured images of Iran’s secret nuclear facility at Qom and then flew home. Analysts at the CIA and other agencies watched carefully for
Testing
The video below shows the production prototype of the Transition Street-Legal Airplane completing its successful first flight at Plattsburgh International Airport in Plattsburgh, NY on March 23, 2012. The same vehicle has also successfully conducted initial drive and conversion testing, demonstrating the Transition’s capability to provide unmatched freedom, flexibility
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The U.S. Army is moving along with a series of upgrades and technological improvements to its Unmanned Aircraft System platforms, or UAS, Program Office officials said April 3. The UAS improvements are part of a broader effort to bring increased sensing and surveillance capability to deployed forces, officials said
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Kyrgyz officials have asked a U.S. military delegation for unmanned aircraft. Kyrgyzstan's Defence Council Secretary Busurmankul Tabaldiev told RFE/RL the request was for American UAS to be left for Kyrgyzstan during the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan due by the end of 2014. U.S.
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The US State Department wants to acquire its own fleet of unmanned aircraft to help protect diplomats posted to Iraq and other dangerous countries and in March, issued a request for proposals for contractors to provide the aircraft, crew and support on a turnkey basis. The State already operates UAS
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Dutch company PAL-V Europe NV has released this video [below] of successful test flights of it's flying car, PAL-V (Personal Air and Land Vehicle). During the past two weeks, several test flights were conducted at the Gilze Rijen Airport (The Netherlands). The patented vehicle flies in the air
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Elbit Systems has launched an Integrated Maritime Awareness Concept and Solution (IMACS) suit, developed to answer the unique defense requirements of maritime infrastructure facilities, such as oil and gas rigs. Strategically important, these facilities call for a unique protection concept due to the potential threats posed by pirate and terror
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AeroVironment has added Sentient’s Kestrel Land MTI software solution to AV’s family of small UAS by automatically detecting moving objects in electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) full motion video (FMV). Integrated with AV’s existing common Ground Control System (GCS), which serves the Puma, Raven and Wasp, this
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Major General Anthony G. Crutchfield, Commanding General of the US Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker The military's budget may shrink, but the outlook on Army aviation is optimistic, said the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence. More than 1,000
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Spain will deploy two new types of UAS in Afghanistan during 2012, for a total of six aircraft. The IAI Searcher MKII and III aircraft have been deployed since March of 2008 exclusively at the Forward Support Base of Herat, but from now on Spain will also have a ground