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Insitu Inc. announced that the Insitu Common Open-mission Management Command and Control (ICOMC2) system flew its Integrator Unmanned Aircraft System during a one-hour, 20-minute flight in eastern Oregon earlier this year. ICOMC2 is a core UAS control system that can be augmented with software plug-ins to incorporate evolving, mission-critical technology.
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BAE Systems has announced its intention to re-fly the Mantis UAS Concept Demonstrator – this time in UK airspace. This will be the first flight of a UAS of this class in UK airspace. Flying Mantis will enable the Company to continue to mature a number of UAS capabilities and technologies,
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The UAV Factory team expanded the boundaries of the unmanned aircraft capability by performing a nonstop 54 hour and 27 minute flight of the Penguin B - the longest recorded flight for a mini-class unmanned aircraft. The previous longest endurance mini UAS flight was achieved by AAI’s Aerosonde in
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Raytheon’s new small tactical munition (STM), which the U.S. group claims is the first purpose-built weapon for tactical unmanned aircraft systems, could be in active service within a few months. The U.S. group told AIN it is currently integrating the STM on “a couple of platforms that
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The Boeing Phantom Eye, a high-altitude, long endurance test bed, will require a nose gear redesign after the component snapped during the aircraft's first landing at Edwards AFB, California. "Hardware-wise, there will be changes based on what we learned," says Programme Manager Drew Mallow. "I
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Darpa announced that its UAVForge competition has ended — with none of the 140 teams emerging victorious in the quest to create a better unmanned aircraft. “The teams brought creativity and enthusiasm to the competition,” Jim McCormick, the Darpa programme manager in charge of the contest, said in the statement. “The
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The US Army successfully validated the technology and capabilities of the Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) System that will bring the Army one step closer to flying unmanned aircraft systems into national airspace. The Product Directorate for Unmanned Systems Airspace Integration (USAIC) conducted a formal two-week demonstration during the
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Project officials at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are hailing the success of recent flights tests of a miniature automatic ground collision avoidance system (Auto-GCAS) for small unmanned aircraft, after the smartphone-assisted system repeatedly executed pull-ups or sharp turns of the test aircraft to avoid imminent impact with
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The US military has dozens of different types of UAS and each one has its own unique controller. And each of those various controllers flies a single robot. There’s no system that controls multiple UAS at once. One Pentagon office thinks that’s an archaic way of doing business.
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A Jetstream aircraft known as ‘The Flying Test Bed’, which can fly as if it were a UAS , is undergoing a series of flight trials in preparation for the first maiden flight of a surrogate UAS in UK shared airspace later this year. The aircraft will fly using Instrument Flight
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Researchers at the University of Colorado are building the smallest supersonic jet engine ever made. Weighing just 22 lbs. (10 kg) , the tiny jet will drive an unmanned aircraft faster than the speed of sound and could become a template for testing future generations of civilian and military aircraft. Source:
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Northrop Grumman just posted this video which is a visual summary of activities associated with the recent flight testing of X-47B Air Vehicle Two (AV-2) at Edwards Air Force Base, California.The testing marked the completion of the airworthiness test phase of the Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D)