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Under the name of Sant Arpia, the Mohajer 2, an Iranian UAS, is currently flying in Venezuela. Reportedly operating from the Cavim (CA Venezolana de Industria Militares) Maracay factory, where a new UAS facility has been unveiled by recent satellite imagery, the Mohajer 2 is a light unarmed unmanned aircraft
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According to the information being spread by Chinese Defense forums, a group of 17 Chinese expert would have recently arrived in Iran not only to inspect, but also to collect and bring back to China some key components of the U.S. RQ-170 captured by Iran in December 2011. Indeed,
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In this video, Syrian rebels show off three small, unmanned surveillance aircraft that they say they downed. Walking a viewer through what looks like a machinist shop displaying their banner, the Syrians display two robotic planes built around a missile-shaped fuselage, appearing to be around six feet in length, painted
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ACP Composites, Inc., a manufacturer of high quality, lightweight composite panels, has just announced the introduction of their new 3 Ply Sandwich Panels. These new 3 layer Sandwich Panels offer increased strength properties without losing the light weight features that sandwich panels offer. ACP Composites focuses on supplying the most
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Northrop Grumman has flown two RQ-4 Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) Global Hawks in formation under its KQ-X programme to develop the concept of air-to-air refuelling for high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) UAS. One of the aircraft in the exercise was equipped with a belly-mounted refueling system. The two aircraft have yet
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Rockwell Collins has launched the first operational Real Time Kinematic (RTK) Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) technology solution for secure GPS receivers.Until now, military operations that required centimeter-level GPS navigation accuracy were based on commercial RTK GPS receivers. However, with the Rockwell Collins RTK SAASM technology solution, unmanned aircraft
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The Silent Falcon is a compact unmanned aircraft weighing a bit more than 20 pounds. It can run for hours on batteries and solar power and has a maximum wing span of 17 feet. The aircraft is the brain child of Albuquerque native John Brown. He says the motto of
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Insitu Inc. announced today that its Netherlands customer is now authorized to fly the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) under a limited military aircraft type-classification certificate from the Military Aviation Authority (MAA) of the Netherlands. “We understood the urgency of obtaining this limited military-type certificate for our customer to operate
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Boeing and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) have demonstrated that an operator on the ground, using only a laptop and a military radio, can command an unmanned aircraft "swarm." Despite limited flight training, the operator was able to connect with autonomous UAS, task them
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The Boeing Unmanned Little Bird H-6U helicopter successfully performed 14 autonomous take-offs and landings from a ship during flight tests last month. This is a significant milestone for a medium-size vertical-takeoff-and-landing UAS. For the tests, conducted from a private ship off the coast of Florida, Boeing integrated a commercial-off-the-shelf takeoff-and-landing
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Air Robotics has introduced the Im IV-D (Four Delta), a hand-launched, small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) capable of carrying a wide variety of user-swappable payloads and able to survive demanding field environments.The Four Delta incorporates Air Robotics’ patent-pending Modular Payload Lifting System pod and AirRoplate airframe manufacturing process. The
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Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC, a Business Unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division, and a leader in advanced digital microwave systems for MAG (Military, Aerospace & Government) markets, announces the formation of a technology partnership with Leptron, the leader in industrial robotic helicopters. IMT’s VSTx COFDM ultra-compact transmitter