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Brican Flight Systems Inc. is set to reveal the TD100 series of advanced Unmanned Aircraft Systems at the Ontario Centres of Excellence's Discovery 2012 conference held May 14 and 15 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. "Our mission is to deliver superior quality digital information, providing scientists
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The Boeing Company and the U.S. Air Force completed the first manned flight of the QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target (FSAT) on May 4 at Cecil Field in Jacksonville.The QF-16 took off at 3:05 p.m. Eastern time and climbed to an altitude of 41,000 feet
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US Navy engineers demonstrated the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities of a ship-based UAS for senior Coast Guard, Navy and Congressional stakeholders in an exercise on the Potomac River. Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) personnel launched the ScanEagle UAS on simulated search and seizure missions, successfully detecting
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Brazilian firm Avibras is concluding final assembly of the prototype of the ‘Falcão’ [Falcon], the first domestic aircraft in the 800-kilo class, used for surveillance, reconnaissance, patrol, and sensor tasks, among other missions. The Falcão will have its inaugural flight before July. The Falcão’s frame is made of carbon
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India’s RUSTOM-1 made its 14th successful flight on Tuesday morning at Kolar with attainment of about 11500 feet AGL (above ground level) and speed of above 140 Kmph during 2 hrs 10 minutes of cruise. The aircraft was developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) a DRDO lab at Bangalore
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Improvised explosive devices have changed the way the Marine Corps engages hostile forces. The need has risen for supplies to reach the most remote parts of Afghanistan quickly, reliably and safely. Late last year, the Corps began experimenting with the K-MAX unmanned helicopter, able to transport large amounts of cargo
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BAE Systems is assessing software for unmanned aircraft that will operate with an unprecedented level of independence. The project, named Astraea, differs from the current UAS in use in Afghanistan, which are flown remotely by pilots on the ground. Instead the prototypes will follow a set of programmed instructions, with
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Most aircraft slated to go onto aircraft carriers have to go through an electronic magnetic interference test that bathes the design in about 200 volts per meter. But the test platform for the Navy’s unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (Uclass) aircraft programme, will have to endure 10 times
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They can be deployed as additional surveillance resources during major events, or as high-resolution 3D street imaging systems. Intelligent swarms of aerial drones are a universally useful tool for police, crisis managers and urban planners. Special 3D sensors developed by Fraunhofer researchers ensure flawless aerobatics and prevent collisions. Like a
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Imint demonstrated high level capabilities of video stabilization using their Ihvertsoftware, connected to output of Simlat's high fidelity STAR . Imint commented that by using Simlat's advanced systems, a highly-realistic payload picture was presented with some extreme conditions, and thus they were able to display the wide
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The Seattle Police Department recently demonstrated how it's newly acquired unmanned aircraft hovers and flies in a warehouse where police vehicles are stored.Officer Reuben Omelanchuk,one of department's two officers trained to fly the aircraft said: "It's very fun, but doing it
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The North American X-10 (model RTV-A-5) was an unmanned technology demonstrator for advanced missile technologies during the 1950s. The X-10 was similar to the development of Bell's X-9 Shrike project. To facilitate development of the long-range SM-64 Navaho surface-to-surface cruise missile, North American Aviation developed the RTV-A-5, or