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Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into UAS video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn’t secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reapers, Danger Room has learned. The majority of the aircraft still broadcast their classified video streams “in the
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The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law offers this publication as a service to inform the debate about how the plan to integrate UAS into the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS) should be formulated and what it should ultimately contain. Although there are many important aspects
Testing
High-performance motion control systems are the workhorses that enable payloads to dependably execute their missions with pinpoint accuracy. Usually, a system designer comes up with the idea for the application first—UAS, security sensor, communications system, thermal surveillance, etc.—then almost always bumps into this question: “How do I move
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The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) earlier reported that unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) could not meet the aviation safety requirements developed for manned aircraft and posed several obstacles to operating safely and routinely in the national airspace system. These include: 1. the inability for UAS to detect, sense, and avoid
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The U.S. Air Force has launched an update of its Tech Hangar app that educates users about its array of aircraft, both past and present. The U.S. Air Force is home to the world’s most amazing collection of aviation technology. With the Tech Hangar app, now anyone
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The US Government Accountability Office just published its 2012 Annual Report. It found evidence of duplication, overlap, or fragmentation among federal government programmes - one of the defence areas highlighted is unmanned aircraft systems. The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates that the cost of current unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) acquisition
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Despite a somewhat flippant title (Sitting Ducks and Peeping Toms), this serious, in-depth work records in remarkable detail the story of unmanned aircraft development and use by the UK since 1916. Arising from research by the legendary Professor Archibald Low into wireless control of an aircraft’s movable surfaces, in
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The reliability of Pentagon weapons systems remains a serious problem, according to a 352-page Annual Report released the other day by the Defense Department. And among the systems that have tested poorly in terms of reliability are some of the military’s most vaunted new aircraft: the unmanned MQ-9 Reaper
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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announces the publication of a new book, “Designing Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Comprehensive Approach,” by Jay Gundlach, which explores all elements of the design of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), including options for architecture and design drivers across a broad spectrum of UAS
Military
According to a new congressional report acquired by Wired’s Danger Room, unmanned aircraft now account for 31 percent of all military aircraft. In 2005, only five percent of military aircraft were robots, a report by the Congressional Research Service notes. Barely seven years later, the military has 7,494
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US unmanned aircraft have Bangalore-based Serial Innovations to thank for helping them send live video feeds smoothly. This technology start-up has developed products that helps stabilise video feeds coming from UAS. Serial Innovations founder and CEO Arvind Lakshmikumar said they developed these systems for Europe's biggest defence company,
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Strategy Analytics has just published a new 7 page report entitled “Maritime Surveillance Expanding Electronic Systems Opportunity from UAS.” The author is Asif Anwar and the report is available to clients only. Here is the abstract and here is the pitch: UAS came of age during the current Afghanistan war.