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At the crack of dawn the O.R.C.A Force successfully launched their unmanned aircraft to capture footage of the sealers at Cape Cross, Namibia. The images captured from the video stream shows the area of the seal reserve, the sealers stepping out of their vehicles and the full
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This video shows what is believed to be the first Free Syrian Army UAS. According to the speaker, the DIY Unmanned Aircraft is equipped with a camera and is capable of carrying 50 kg of explosive “against Assad's forces”. Three meters in length with a 3 m wingspan,
Military
As many as 66 countries would be eligible to buy American UAS under new Defense Department guidelines but Congress and the State Department, which have a final say, have not yet opened the spigots for exports, a senior Pentagon official said on Wednesday. The 66 countries were listed in a
Testing
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced the successful first flight of the Block 1-plus Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper, an upgrade to the original Block 1 Predator B that has been in production since 2003.The MQ-9 Block 1-plus test flight occurred on May 24 at the company’s Gray Butte
Lighter Than Air
Inside the 17-story mammoth wooden blimp hangars at the former military base in Tustin that rise above southern Orange County, Worldwide Aeros Corp. is building a blimp-like airship designed for the military to carry tons of cargo to remote areas around the world. "Nobody has ever tried to do
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Northrop Grumman posted this promo video on YouTube.It's basically a short overview of the compnay's various currently available unmanned systems. Source: YouTube
Military
The Spanish Army has completed its first 500 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions in Afghanistan using Israel Aerospace Industries Searcher II. Acquired via Madrid's PASI unmanned aircraft system programme, the equipment forms part of Spain's contribution to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Flown
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The AOPA Foundation's Air Safety Institute (ASI) has released a new interactive online course entitled "Unmanned Aircraft and the National Airspace System."The course covers topics including: what unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are and how they operate; their impact on general aviation; how manned and unmanned
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With much of Australia looking like reverting to a dry bushfire-prone weather pattern avionics engineers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are pulling out all stops to develop the technology to enable remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) to become airborne. Professor Duncan Campbell who heads the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace
Military
Global Hawk touching down at RAAF Edinburgh in February 2006 The United States flew highly classified Global Hawk surveillance missions from the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh in South Australia from late 2001 until at least 2006.The operations were detected by a group of Adelaide aviation historians
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High-tech robots being developed by a group of scientists near Medicine Hat, Alberta, could soon be used to detect leaks in pipelines or avalanches in the mountains. The UAS are being developed at Canadian Forces Base Suffield to use overseas for gathering information or carrying cargo. Jared Giesbrecht, who is
Electronic Systems
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