Under Development – An Advanced Unmanned Helicopter
Positioning itself for future Army contracts, Sikorsky Aircraft says it is developing an unmanned helicopter sophisticated enough to skim treetops, negotiate emerging obstacles and...
Gray Eagle Completes 20,000 Automated Takeoffs and Landings
General Atomics announced that its Gray Eagle Unmanned Air System (UAS) has reached a record 20,000 successful automatic launch and recoveries with the Automatic...
Lockheed Martin to Continue Supporting U.S. Army’s PTDS System
Lockheed Martin will continue to support a tethered aerostat-based system that provides real-time, around-the-clock reconnaissance and surveillance for warfighters in Afghanistan. The U.S. Army...
Unmanned Aircraft Take First Steps Into Civil Airspace
Slowly but surely, unmanned aircraft systems(UAS) are entering the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). For the first time, aircraft have flown commercially into remote...
Anka, the Turkish UAS, to get SATCOM
Turkey will add Satcom capabilities to the Anka, the country’s first indigenously built UAV, according to a top procurement official.
Murad Bayar, head of the...
Improved Gray Eagle Flies More than 45 Hours
General Atomics, the U.S. unmanned air systems (UAS) manufacturer, announced the successful completion of the first of two planned U.S. Army endurance demonstration flights...
New Israeli Payload Includes HDTV Cameras
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Tamam Division is introducing a new POP300D-HD - True High Definition (HD) Day and Night Stabilized Optronic Payload using a 1280x1024...
Expert – Turkey Detaches Itself from the U.S
"This is another step that will actually detach Turkey from the west and NATO" that’s according to an Israeli expert, in relation to the...
Autodesk creates 3D model of headquarters using Octo-Copter UAV
Take one piece of software that can stitch 2D photos into a 3D model, one camera-carrying UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), and mix well to...
UAS Mapped Matterhorn in Just 6 Hours
The Matterhorn, which juts out a full kilometer above the surrounding Swiss Alps, dominates the local skyline and has challenged countless mountaineers since it...
U.S. Homeland Security to Operate Air Force Border Blimps
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will take over control of the fleet of aerostat radar systems along the U.S.-Mexico border. Until now...
The New Austrian UAV is Equipped with an Israeli Payload
The Cassidian Tracker mini unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has won the Austrian Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) UAV competition. The system will be the Austrian...
Vietnam Eyes Israeli-Made Unmanned Air Systems
Vietnamese officials have been recently briefed about some Israel-made unmanned air systems (UAS). The Israeli unmanned systems manufacturers will display their capabilities in the...
New U.S. Long-Range UAVs to Launch from Small Ships
A U.S. military research program, that seeks to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to be launched and recovered from relatively small...
Russia to Build a 20 Ton UAV by 2018
The prototype of Russia’s first 20-ton combat drone will be unveiled in 2018, a defense industry source said.
According to RIA Novosti the 20-ton unmanned...
Israeli-Made UAS Test-Launched from Navy Ship
The Israeli Navy wants unmanned air systems (UAS) on its ships, and that is the reason for recent efforts made by Aeronautics, the Israeli...
U.S Air Force Seeks UAV Common Sense-and-Avoid System
U.S. Air Force unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) experts are looking for defense contractors able to design an airborne sense-and-avoid system that could be installed...
The Latest Version of the Revolutionary AirMule to be Displayed at...
A new set of rotor blades has been installed on the AirMule ducted fan VTOL developed by Urban Aeronautics. The company will showcase this...
Authorities May Soon Require Drone Operator Licenses
Quadcopter is the last hit among professional photographers. They use the unmanned platform to take wedding and other event photos from "exotic” angles. Only...
The Israel Blue Bird is Soaring
Another important success for an Israeli unmanned air systems (UAS) manufacturer. The company recently won a contract to supply its SpiLite mini UAS to...
Drone Strikes Effective for Counterterrorism, but Not Counterinsurgency
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...
The Company Propelling the Development of Next-Gen Unmanned Systems
WindRiver, the company that has been supplying software products to the international aviation market for 30 years now, and is an Intel subsidiary, is...
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