World Surveillance Group Inc.(“WSGI”), announced that it has completed the acquisition of Lighter Than Air Systems Corp. (“LTAS”). LTAS is expected to continue to generate revenues based on a robust pipeline in the surveillance and security sector. Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
IDETEC Unmanned Systems Delivers its First iMK-8 Multirotor Solution with 10 Spectral Bands
IDETEC Unmanned Systems has delivered its first iMK-8 multirotor unmanned aircraft system equipped with 3 payload cameras capable to obtain up to 10 spectral bands simultaneously. The end customer, a university in Chile, will use the system for a wide range of agriculture research helping the industry to define and improve performance and quality models in crops. Continue reading
US Navy Wants Lasers on Marines’ Trucks to Shoot Down UAS
The US Office of Naval Research thinks that Marine air-ground task forces are too vulnerable to adversaries flying cheap, small UAS overhead, like the four-pound Raven the Marines themselves used in Iraq. Its answer: outfit Marine ground vehicles with laser guns. Continue reading
Festo BionicOpter Beats Dragonfly at its Own Game
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With the BionicOpter, Festo has applied the highly complex characteristics of the mechanics of dragonfly flight to an ultra-lightweight flying object at a technical level. Continue reading
Turkey, US Sign Unmanned Aircraft Cooperation Agreement
A statement by the Turkish General Staff about the unmanned aircraft cooperation agreement expressed that the flights in northern Iraq will be “conducted entirely under Turkey’s direction.” Continue reading
“The Role of UAS Research is to Inform Policy”
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be research,” quipped Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, Vice-President for Research at the University of Oklahoma and a member of the National Science Board, as he quoted Albert Einstein during the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Summit in Norman, Oklahoma, this week. Continue reading
French National Post Office and Parrot Team to Test Newspaper Delivery by QuadRotor
US Navy Plans to Place Four UCLASS Development Contracts
The US Navy has announced its intention to fund four companies to design new unmanned aircraft as part of its unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (UCLASS) programme. Continue reading