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Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is planning to endow UAS with arms and hands to allow them to work on such tasks as repairing infrastructure and disaster recovery while hovering near the ground. Funded by a three-year $ 649,999 National Science Foundation grant as part of a programme aimed at
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UNOSAT continues to pioneer the use of UAS by testing live video streaming at the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. The first UAS mission was deployed in Haiti last February to analyse damages to assess building reconstruction. The UAS used in the test, also known as md4-200, is a product
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The Boeing Unmanned Little Bird H-6U helicopter successfully performed 14 autonomous take-offs and landings from a ship during flight tests last month. This is a significant milestone for a medium-size vertical-takeoff-and-landing UAS. For the tests, conducted from a private ship off the coast of Florida, Boeing integrated a commercial-off-the-shelf takeoff-and-landing
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Lockheed Martin Procerus Technologies’ has announced a new small vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system which can be deployed in just minutes. The rugged, five-pound VTOL quad rotor, dual-sensor platform features an extended hover, perch and stare capability that provides military, civil and commercial customers with aerial reconnaissance
Military
The US Navy has detailed causes of two crashes of the Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout that led to an 'operational pause' in flights of the aircraft. Both crashes occurred independently of one another and involved different systems of the rotary-wing, vertical takeoff unmanned air vehicle (VTUAV). The
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U.S. Marine Corps officials have extended the deployment of the K-MAX Cargo. The Marine Corps supplies forward operating bases with K-MAX, rather than with a ground convoy or manned aircraft, to reduce the threat posed to personnel by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). K-MAX Cargo, jointly designed and developed by
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Airstar International, a manufacturer of radio controlled unmanned aircraft system (UAS) helicopters, announced that it will unveil a new line of cutting-edge helicopters at the upcoming International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Exposition from September 29 - October 3 in San Diego. The new line was made possible in
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has rekindled a maritime vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) concept demonstration to inform a possible follow-on acquisition programme for a shipborne UAS to operate from Royal Navy (RN) surface ships. Known as the Rotary Wing Unmanned Air System (RWUAS) Capability
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One of Russia's manufacturers of unmanned aircarft, Zala Aero, has provided the Russian government with more than 70 unmanned systems, each containing several aircraft. According to an article published Monday on Open Democracy Russia. The Kremlin's romance with drones started in 2006, when the Interior Ministry
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Advanced Aviation Technology - A2Tech has performed the first official flights of its new RV-VTOLx4 Multi-Rotor Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) at Peschiera del Garda, Italy. This first pre-production airframe - S# P001 - took to the air for hovering flight tests earlier in spring of this year. The RPA
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Ducted-fan VTOL unmanned aircraft have a lot to offer - the ability to take off, land and fly in confined urban spaces being one. But quiet they are not, at least those that are big enough to carry a useful payload for a useful time.Now small firm D-Star Engineering
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House lawmakers recently chastised the US Department of Homeland Security for failing to take charge of security aspects related to the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into civilian airspace. The issue is gaining prominence in part due to recent tests showing that "remote hackers" were able to