Schiebel‘s CAMCOPTER S-100 successfully completed a series of flights and trials onboard the new Gowind class OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel), L’ADROIT at the beginning of November, under the command and control of the French Navy. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Rheinmetall Laser Demonstration Destroys Unmanned Aircraft
At a live fire laser demo at the Rheinmetall’s Ochsenboden proving ground in Switzerland recently, international guests were able to view two laser weapon demonstrators in action, each featuring different performance parameters. Continue reading
Dassault Fights Back
86 year old French industrialist Serge Dassault attacked a parliamentary move to buy unmanned military aircraft from the United States, saying it would cost jobs and stifle France’s arms industry. Continue reading
ROVER More Popular than iPad with the US Army
For the last two years, one of the most popular electronic gadgets in Afghanistan was not the iPad or satellite phone, but Rover 5, otherwise known as the fifth generation ROVER (Remote Operations Video Enhanced Receiver). Continue reading
Review of Some Non-American UAS by Wired
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The US Military has gone from having just a few unmanned aircraft at the outset of the Iraq War to now over 7,000. Continue reading
SDS to Deliver MQ-9 Reaper Simulator to 1st AF/AFNORTH
SDS International has been awarded a contract to deliver a ROVATTS-based MQ-9 Reaper Mission Training Device (MTD) to support Air National Guard Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) activities at 1st AF/AFNORTH, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Continue reading
X-47B Demonstrator Gets Twin
The second X-47B completed a successful first flight on November 22. Continue reading
Anglo-French Summit to Discuss Unmanned Aircraft Co-Operation
France and Britain hope to deepen defence co-operation, including in unmanned air surveillance, strengthen their influence inside NATO and avoid a confrontation over the future shape of Europe at a crucial Anglo-French summit this Friday. Continue reading