Military users will be able to get real-time high-definition video, view infrared imagery, use radar and even listen in on communications signals – all at the same time – using a new intelligence-gathering aircraft system unveiled by Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
CNN Aerial Footage of Alabama Storm Damage
This is what footage shot from a Parrot AR.Drone really looks like… ! It turns out that the footage that we published last week from Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Daily‘, was indeed professional, as reader David Wray suspected.
South Africa’s Denel Targets Turkey
Denel Dynamics, the missiles and unmanned aircraft systems business arm of SA defence manufacturer, Denel, is exhibiting at this year’s International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) in Istanbul, Turkey from May 10 – 13.
Mercury Computers Delivers Multiple High-Speed Satellite Communications Subsystems
Mercury Computer Systems Inc., a provider of commercially developed ISR subsystems, will provide a prime contractor with Ensemble and Echotek Series products for use in a high-speed satellite communications system tasked with transferring more ISR data from unmanned aircraft to ground forces.
Fukushima Video from Honeywell’s T-Hawk
Three Honeywell employees have flown five successful T-Hawk missions and captured hours of video and dozens of photos of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor. The four RQ-16A T-Hawk Micro Air Vehicles in service at Fukushima have been adapted to carry radiation sensors. This video continues to focus on Reactor N° 4 :
Northrop Grumman Firebird Revealed
Northrop Grumman is planning to publicly unveil its secret Firebird aircraft later this month at the Pentagon’s Empire Challenge – an exercise designed to demonstrate intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies that can be fielded quickly.
UAS Rodeo in the UAE – First Winners
A team from Dubai Men’s College has won the first of the UAE’s Unmanned Air Systems Rodeo. The awards ceremony was held at the Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training Dhabi (CERT) in Abu Dhabi.
Yale Grab Labs Develops Stable Gripping Device for Unmanned Helicopters
The clever chaps at Yale University Grab Labs have developed a robot helicopter integrated with a compliant gripper, able to directly grasp and transport objects while hovering in mid-air outdoors, without need for external motion sensors.