Ever wondered what NAB Vegas looked like through the eyes of a fully stabilized flying camera? The footage above shows the Las Vegas strip and from inside the NAB exhibit hall. Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
Nitrofirex Presents UAS Able to Fight Forest-Fires at Night
Spanish company Nitrofirex presented the first version of an unmanned aircraft capable of combating forest fires at night at the Aerial Firefighting Europe Forum held in Aix-en- Provence (France) on April 10/11. Continue reading
Insitu Integrator Export Variant Sold to Middle East
Boeing subsidiary Insitu has sold several export variants of its Integrator unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to international customers, the company said last week. Continue reading
US Navy Laser Canon Blasts UAS Out of the Sky
The Laser Weapon System (LaWS) temporarily installed aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) (shown here conducting an operational test) in San Diego, California, is a technology demonstrator built by the Naval Sea Systems Command from commercial fiber solid state lasers, utilizing combination methods developed at the Naval Research Laboratory. Continue reading
US Animal Rights Organisation PETA Buys Octocopters to Track Illegal Hunting
Animal rights organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced plans to launch hunter- and fisher-tracking unmanned aircraft in American airspace. Continue reading
Boeing Gets $19M US Navy Contract for Flying Torpedoes
Airborne weapons experts at the Boeing Co. got the go-ahead to start building add-on kits for the U.S. Navy Mark 54 lightweight torpedo that will enable the weapon to glide through the air from altitudes as high as 30,000 feet and enable the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol jet to attack enemy submarines from long ranges. Continue reading
AeroVironment Gets $13.8M US Army Raven Contract Extension
AeroVironment Inc. announced that it received $13,800,062 of incremental funding on March 30, 2013 from the United States Army for continued performance of a contract action with a not to exceed value of $65,538,759. Continue reading
Iowa State University UAS at Make to Innovate Expo
Students at Iowa State University showed off their creations last week on campus believe that one day UAS will dot Iowa’s skies, saving lives and improving the environment one unmanned flight at a time. Continue reading