Unmanned Systems

Israeli unmanned air systems (UAS) manufacturers are continuing to upgrade their systems. Elbit systems has upgraded its SkyLark-1LE UAS after the Israeli defence forces (IDF)...

Smartphones Ideal as low-cost brains for robots At the University of Pennsylvania’s Vijay Kumar Lab., Dr. Kumar and his students have been developing advanced, autonomous drones...

The US Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) think all unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) owners should be required to pass an online training course to...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has kicked off its Squad X Core Technologies program in a bid to try and improve...

All photos: Noam Eshel, defense-Update The Russian Su-35S, making its international debut here at the Paris Airshow, stole the show with breathtaking aerobatic performance that...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) announced that its Predator-series, including the MQ-1 Predator, MQ-9 Reaper, and MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV’s, has achieved a...

The US Navy will be equipping its newly-upgraded unmanned helicopter MQ-8C Fire Scout with Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s Osprey electronically scanned radar, helping expand crews’ surveillance capabilities...

A mobile network that will control UAV traffic is now being researched. DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung (the company in charge of air traffic control for...

  The US agency DARPA (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) has recently announced the completion of phase 1 in its Gremlins program, which envisions...

Tactical UAS (TUAS) are a critical part of the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance architectures of armed forces all over the world, and zero point...

A new mini hovering UAS is creating interest in special forces around the world The air frame's main function is to provide a sturdy, well...

Amazon's goes full force for using UAV's for deliveries. The company's biggest hurdle to using flying delivery drones is approval from the Federal Aviation...

The second stage in the development of a new US spy satellite is nearing completion. The satellite, which is designed to gather visual intelligence,...

Israel’s defense industries are opposed to the proposition of a central body entrusted with determining Israel’s policy concerning unmanned systems, such as unmanned aerial...

By ARIE EGOZI The severance of the defense ties between Turkey and Israel is causing problems for some major Turkish programmes, as seems from reports...

The first thing that probably comes to any person’s mind in using unmanned aerial platforms is military needs, and especially missions gathering visual intelligence...

Commander of American naval air forces, Vice Admiral Mike Shoemaker, has revealed the United States’ vision for the future carrier-based air forc. Among other...

Machine learning could soon be coming to mobile devices, if recently announced partnership between Google and chip manufacturer Movidius bears fruit. Machine learning is...

The Turkish National Police is now putting the Bayraktar TB2 Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) into service. Consisting of three UAVs and ground control...

There are 100 million land mines in more than 60 countries worldwide. Every day, 10 innocent civilians are killed or maimed by these explosives The...

To meet an urgent need for an anti-UAV system to counter the threat from rogue UAVs, Elettronica (ELT) is developing its ADRIAN (Anti-Drone Interception,...

The European Union is pondering an EU Commission proposal to acquire a fleet of surveillance drones, satellites, and planes as part of an “ambitious...