Unmanned Systems

An electronic intelligence (ELINT) sensor is being added to the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper UAV. Maker General Atomics Aeronautical Systems announced a deal with Raytheon...

  The operational testing of the Centaur Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA) system in Virginia will be expanded The Centaur, a large UAS developed by adding autonomy-enabling...

Michigan-based Vayu, Inc. made history when it completed the first ever series of long-range, fully autonomous drone flights with blood and stool samples this...

The 2016 Olympics recently concluded were the most digitally connected Olympics ever. Numerous  of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies were applied during the games...

As the activity of flying drones becomes increasingly widespread, drone accidents are also increasing. Many of these accidents are related to operational issues and,...

Scientists in Russia wearing an exoskeleton succeeded in controling a distant connected robot in Germany, within the fraemwork of a project called CAPIO with...

More and more attention has been drawn to the Islamic State drone threat ever since the group killed two Kurdish soldiers in October 2016...

A successful demonstration of manned/unmanned teaming to improve combat efficiency and effectiveness for the warfighter was conducted by Lockheed Martin’s experimental engineering department, Skunk...

Recent US government-sponsored research provides operators of small UAS helpful guidance for legally operating in proximity to manned aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA)...

"Terrain Dominance" or "terrain intelligence" or "field presence" are various terms for the same concept: how any military force could have knowledge of the...

לעברית לחץ כאן . Maritime surveillance requirements are demanding specific capabilities and performance such as mission endurance, flight profiles, mission equipment and human factors. Until recently,...

Despite all the publicity that American UAVs receive, the major exporter of UAVs has been Israel. Between 2002 and 2012, Israel exported $4.7 billion...

As a tool against counterinsurgency, air strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles have limited effectiveness--but there's reason to think that drone strikes "might achieve their...

Russia’s armed forces will conduct test flights of a drone aircraft from the United Arab Emirates early next year, the manufacturer of the drone...

In the framework of a local safe city program, which includes the installation of hundreds of security cameras especially in the downtown area of...

South Korea pointed to North Korea as a strong suspect in a probe into where two crashed drones—one of which reportedly neared the presidential...

This trend is getting momentum. You take a manned aircarft and take out the pilot . Italian business aircraft manufacturer Piaggio Aero has furthered the...

There is currently no available off-the-shelf technology to cope with the danger posed by small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) - aka drones. According to experts,...

Ronen Nadir, CEO of BlueBird Aero Systems, talked to I-HLS shortly after AUS&R 2015, which took place at September 7th, about he got into...

Limor Barak, VP Marketing for Sky Sapience, spoke with I-HLS after AUS&R 2015 about the company’s unique niche in the modern world. The company’s...

  A new innovation program was revealed during a Menlo Park, California conference. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials told technology entrepreneurs that the DHS...

For unmanned aircraft systems to safely fly in increasingly crowded airspace, they must be able to accurately detect and avoid obstacles like trees, power...