After China’s first stealth combat UAS, the Lijian, completed its first test flight on November 21, the Moscow-based Military Parade stated that the aircraft — designed jointly by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation and Hongdu Aviation Industry Group — is in fact a copy of a Russian design. Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
Australia’s Herons to Remain in Afghanistan to Secure Elections in 2014
Australia has agreed to extend the deployment of two Heron unmanned surveillance aircraft to assist with security for Afghanistan’s national elections in April next year. Defence Minister David Johnston said the 40-member Heron team, based at Kandahar airport, would now stay until next July. Continue reading
Iran Claims Reverse-Enginered RQ-170 Soon Ready to Fly
Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami announced that the Iranian version of the RQ-170 which has been manufactured through the reverse engineering of the American UAS which was tracked and hunted down in Iran late in 2011, will be unveiled to the public soon. “The construction will finish soon and most of the job has been done now,” General Salami told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran on Tuesday. Continue reading
Sinclair Community College Offers Smart Course in COA Applications
Sinclair Community College is offering a new course on obtaining permission to fly unmanned aircraft systems.The course will concern obtaining a Certificate of Authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly UAS. Continue reading
General Atomics Gets $40M Gray Eagle Production Contract from US Army
Gray Eagle with Triclops Sensor Suite – Photo: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.,was awarded a $40,253,105 modification to contract W58RGZ-13-C-0109 for the Gray Eagle full rate production option exercise applicable to the Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System. Continue reading
PowerUp 3 Raises Over $500,000 from 10,000 Kickstarter Backers in Just Two Weeks
PowerUp has raised $500,000+ from 10,000 backers in just two weeks of its Kickstarter Campaign. With 45 days still remaining in the campaign, it promises to be one of the most successful projects on Kickstarter ever. Continue reading
Textron, Bell and AAI Launch Collaboration in Manned/Unmanned Teaming
Textron Systems and Bell Helicopter, a subsidiary of Textron Inc., have opened the Textron Systems Integration and Collaboration Lab, as well as the Bell Helicopter/AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems Manned/Unmanned Operations (MUMO) Capability Development Lab. Continue reading
AgriLife Research Scientist Utilises UAS to Detect Wheat Disease Progression
Dr. Charlie Rush hopes to use a unique method – an unmanned aircraft system – to track disease progression across wheat fields to eventually help producers make better irrigation decisions. Continue reading