Testing
Cassidian has confirmed plans to launch a new flight-test campaign with its Barracuda unmanned combat aircraft technology demonstrator later this year. To be staged at Goose Bay, Canada “this summer”, the flights will build on work performed at the same site in July 2010, when Cassidian’s lone Barracuda
Testing
Swiss company RUAG has developed OPATS (Object Position and Tracking Sensor) - a laser-based automatic landing system for UAS that represents a cost-efficient alternative to radar-based landing systems. The landing procedure for UAS is still a very delicate operation and the most critical phase during the entire UAS
Testing
ITM Power has signed an Equipment Development and Lease Agreement with Boeing Research & Technology Europe S.L.U. for the development, assembly and field trials of a 1 Nm3/hour (2.1 kg/day) PEM electrolyser. The containerised electrolysis equipment will form part of Boeing’s current off-grid
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Northrop Grumman Corporation continues flight tests of the first developmental multifunction active sensor (MFAS) radar destined for the U.S. Navy's MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS). The MFAS sensor has been integrated into the company's Gulfstream II test-bed aircraft
Testing
Propulsion by a novel jet engine is the crux of the innovation behind a University of Colorado Boulder-developed aircraft that’s accelerating toward commercialisation. Jet engine technology can be small, fuel-efficient and cost-effective, at least with Assistant Professor Ryan Starkey’s design. The CU-Boulder aerospace engineer,
Testing
This video* shows China's Sunward Tech Star-lite SVU200 vertical take-off and landing unmanned aircraft during its maiden flight. The video is compiled from segments of the first test-flights of the Heavy-Lift SVU200, designed and built by Mr. Dennis Fetters with help from Mr. James
Testing
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced the successful demonstration of an early prototype of its Due Regard Radar on a manned aircraft. The Due Regard Radar is a company-funded system that supports GA-ASI’s overall radar-based airborne sense-and-avoid architecture for its Predator B UAS.
Testing
Since the capture of the US RQ-170, Tehran has been using the media to display its capability to reverse engineer or build its own unmanned aircraft. However, some of them seem to be modified radio-controlled models rather than real UAS. Anyway, those made by the students at the
VTOL
Microdrones staged this stunt in a film studio using Urs Meier, a former FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) soccer referee as an impartial judge, to demonstrate the long endurance of its md4-1000. The microdrone md4-1000, which is the "flagship" of the product line of microdrones,
VTOL
Two Emirati students at Dubai Men's College have built one of UAE's first home-grown unmanned aircraft. Khalil Al Beloushi, 37, is living proof that it is never too late to build a better future. Having dropped out of secondary school to take up government employment,
Commercial
Israel Aerospace Industries' Heron was recently demonstrated successfully and according to the plan, this time in Greece, as part of a demonstration held by the European Union agency, Frontex. During the demonstration a number of IAI payloads were employed successfully to detect potential targets, for monitoring anti-smuggling and
VTOL
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is finalising development of C²Strike - a command, communication, surveillance and strike integrated system designated for tactical use and based on the Panther UAS special capabilities. C²Strike system opens new and groundbreaking capabilities for the tactical maneuvering force in defense and strike missions. Panther'