British Army operations involving leased Elbit Systems Hermes 450 tactical unmanned aircraft have recorded 11 crashes in the past five years, Armed Forces Minister Andrew Robathan has revealed. Continue reading
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Surprise Strike Against Sudan Arms Factory – Israeli Air Force or American UAS ?
Sudan has accused that the Yarmouk munitions factory in Sudan, believed to be supplying weapons to the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, was attacked in Israeli Air Force’s last long-range raid against a nearby “dangerous terrorist state.” Continue reading
University of Mississippi Law School Offers Free Supplement to the Journal of Space Law on UAS Integration into National Air Space
The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law offers this publication as a service to inform the debate about how the plan to integrate UAS into the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS) should be formulated and what it should ultimately contain. Continue reading
Swarming Robots Interact with UAS
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“Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly,” by Nithin Mathews, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Rehan O’Grady, and Marco Dorigo, from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, was presented at IROS 2012 in Vilamoura, Portugal. Continue reading
IAI/Tamam Launches New Line of HD Optronic Stabilised Payloads for UAS
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Tamam Division (IAI/Tamam) has launched a new line of True High Definition (HD) Day and Night Stabilized Optronic Payloads Continue reading
GA-ASI Successfully Tests Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)-Based Surveillance System on Guardian
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced the successful demonstration of an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)-based surveillance system that provides pilots with enhanced situational awareness and supports GA-ASI’s overall airborne sense-and-avoid architecture for its Predator B. Continue reading
Boeing Non-kinetic Missile Records 1st Operational Test Flight
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., successfully tested the Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) during a flight over the Utah Test and Training Range that was monitored from Hill Air Force Base. Continue reading
European UAS Sense-and-Avoid System to Begin Trial Flights by Year-End
First test flights are imminent for a European effort to develop an automated sense-and-avoid mid-air collision avoidance system that would help overcome safety concerns preventing use of unmanned aircraft in civilian airspace. Continue reading