According to a report by According to a report by Yonhap News Agency, South Korea is developing a tilt-rotor type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which has the same vertical-takeoff capability of a helicopter but still retains the speed and range of a traditional, winged aircraft. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2011
North Dakota Leads the Way in Unmanned Aircraft Training
The state of North Dakota is trying to position itself to become a leader in unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
Secure Android Kernel Means Smart Phones Could Replace Army Radio
A major hurdle preventing the wider deployment of smart phones across the US military may have been overcome. Continue reading
DARPA UAV Forge Challenge – Contestant Number 3
Continuing the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Quadrocopter Microdrone. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman to Sign Global Hawk MoU with Korea
Northrop Grumman Corporation will be signing four memoranda of understanding (MOU) with its Korean industry partners on Tuesday, Oct. 18, during the Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition at the Seoul Airport in South Korea. Continue reading
Boeing Establishes New Business Division Focused on C4ISR
The Boeing Company has announced that it has created a new division to better align the company’s Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities. Continue reading
Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera
An enterprising young computer engineer, Jonas Pfeil, who recently graduated with an M.Sc. from the Technical University of Berlin, will present his ‘Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera‘ as the Emerging Technologies demonstration at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2011. Continue reading
Successful Unmanned Helicopter Test Flights from German Police Ship
On 16 September, ESG Elektroniksystem-und-Logistik-GmbH together with Swiss UAV AG and the German Federal Police successfully conducted experimental flights with the Unmanned Mission Avionics Test Helicopter (UMAT) from a Federal Police ship in the Baltic Sea. Continue reading


