AAI has built a new unmanned aircraft, a substantial upgrade of the standard RQ-7 Shadow. The new aircraft, reportedly in the blended-wing configuration, is designed with two payload bays.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Northrop Grumman Picks Thinklogical High Bandwidth Router for BAMS
Northrop Grumman has contracted Thinklogical for key infrastructure systems for the U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System.
Alenia Delivers nEUROn Weapon Bay Doors to Dassault
Alenia Aeronautica, has announced that it has recently delivered the Weapon Bay Doors & Mechanism for nEUROn (the new-generation technology demonstrator for a European Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle – UCAV) to Dassault Aviation.
Xtreme Power Systems Selects RFaxis for New Atmel-Based Diversity Antenna DivBee(TM) Module to Serve ZigBee/ISM Applications
RFaxis has announced that its RFX2401 single chip/single die RF Front-End Integrated Circuit (RFeIC(TM)) for ZigBee/ISM 2.4GHz has been selected by Xtreme Power Systems (XPS) for its new DivBee(TM) Diversity Antenna ZigBee module.
Lockheed Martin Sentinel Used in Bin Laden Operation
The CIA employed unmanned aircraft to fly dozens of secret missions deep into Pakistani airspace and monitor the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, current and former U.S. officials said.
Chile Chooses Elbit’s Hermes 900
Elbit Systems has been selected to supply its Hermes 900 unmanned aircraft system to the Chilean defence forces.
Skyblade UAS on Show in Singapore
Skyblade IV, an unmanned aircraft developed by home-grown firm ST Aerospace and DSO National Laboratories, the national defence research body, was on show at the region’s largest naval exhibition, Imdex Asia, which opened in Singapore on Wednesday.
Israeli Air Force Seeks Unmanned Training System
The Israeli air force has issued a tender to select an unmanned aircraft system for training purposes.