Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced that its Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEI) subsidiary has received a $6.3 million single award baseline contract from the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) for the supply of unmanned aerial targets and associated hardware. Continue reading
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Airship Programmes – Not So Buoyant, Says US Government Accountability Office
ISIS (Concept: Lockheed Martin
(Bad) timing is everything in aerospace. At the height of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, airships looked to be the answer to demands for persistent, “staring-eye” surveillance. Continue reading
LiquidPiston 40-BHP Rotary Engine Delivers 75% Thermal Efficiency
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has had a remarkably successful century and a half. Unfortunately, it’s notoriously inefficient, wasting anywhere from 30 to 99 percent of the energy it produces and spewing unburned fuel into the air. Continue reading
CloakBlade Stealth Octo-Rotor ‘Reaches Out’ to Enemy Ships
The US Navy Warfare Development Command’s Navy Center for Innovation recently demonstrated John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s Cloak Blade Micro-Copter. Continue reading
IAI Heron Demonstrates Maritime Credentials
In this video, the Heron demonstrates its maritime credentials. Continue reading
TECOM Gets $12M Contract from AAI for Portable Ground Control Stations
TECOM Industries, Inc. a Smiths Interconnect business, announced the award of a firm fixed price contract from AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems for approximately $12.0M. Continue reading
New Miniature Autopilot Solution from Instrument Control Sweden
After a long period of development, Instrument Control, Sweden, has announced that its brand new NATO STANAG 4586 compliant autopilot, EasyPilot 3.0, is now available. Continue reading
Insitu Pacific Successfully Integrates McQ Sensor Technology with ScanEagle UAS
Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today that it has successfully completed integration between its ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and the McQ iScout Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) and OmniWatch technologies. Continue reading