Military
TAI has just released a video of the Anka UAS, first unveiled in July 2010, and which made its first test flight at the end of the year. The Anka is designed for night and day missions including adverse weather conditions, performs real time image intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, moving/stationery
Testing
The University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab, has been working on getting groups of the robots to fly together in formation. Just like with a formation of fighter jets, there's a leader robot in each squad along with several follower robots. The followers have just two jobs:
Testing
The V750, China's largest unmanned helicopter, had its first successful flight on May, 7, marking China's first entry into the field of mid-sized unmanned helicopters. The V750 is re-adapted from the B2B double-seated manned helicopter. It has a 757-kilogram take-off weight,
Testing
The clever chaps at Yale University Grab Labs have developed a robot helicopter integrated with a compliant gripper, able to directly grasp and transport objects while hovering in mid-air outdoors, without need for external motion sensors. The specially tuned elasticity properties of the gripper allow the aircraft to robustly
Military
Boeing has announced that the Phantom Ray successfully completed its first flight on April 27 at NASA's Dryden Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The 17-minute flight took place following a series of high-speed taxi tests in March that validated ground guidance, navigation and
Testing
World Surveillance Group Inc. (formerly Sanswire) has announced that it was awarded a $200,000 contract from Space Florida to create a Performance Data Package in connection with the flight testing of the Argus One at the U.S. Army's proving ground facility in Yuma, Arizona in May/
Testing
The most intense use of the US Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen Integration and Evaluation Capability (NIEC) to date has been by the UAS community, both within the FAA and the broader government and industry community. The NIEC was created so that neither next-generation air transport system'
Testing
Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced the start of system tests of a new Multi-Function Active Sensor (MFAS) being developed here for use by the U.S. Navy onboard the MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS). The MFAS is a 360-degree field-of-regard
Propulsion
AME Unmanned Air Systems announced the successful first flight of the Fury 1500 Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (STUAS) powered by a heavy-fuel engine. The successful flight occurred April 5 at the Fort Hunter Liggett range on California's central coast. This latest upgrade to the Fury, developed
Military
Boeing’s A160T Hummingbird unmanned helicopter could be flying again soon. It has been grounded since September after an aircraft crashed in Belize during a demonstration deployment with U.S. Special Operations Command. The cause of the crash has not been released but was related to the tail rotor, says
Military
The Navy programme office in charge of the service's newest unmanned aerial system is looking to integrate Air Force-centric hardware into that aircraft, as a way to close a critical collection gap in ongoing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Members of the Navy's Persistent Maritime
Electronic Sub-Systems
Lockheed Martin ’s Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar, TRACER, has completed flight testing aboard a Predator B MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial System. TRACER is a dual-band (UHF and VHF) synthetic-aperture radar capable of detecting and geo-locating objects that are buried, camouflaged or concealed under foliage.