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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 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
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
The UN and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have long imposed a non-binding arms embargo on both Armenia and Azerbaijan, and both are under a de facto arms ban from the United States. Continue reading
R³ Engineering LLC (R³E) is claiming the first ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast) based, fully autonomous collision avoidance sequence, executed by a sense and avoid system installed on an unmanned aircraft system. Continue reading
The Australian Government Civil Aviation Safety Authority has issued a statement to the effect that it has not yet given approval for a trial of aerial surf lifesaving patrols in south east Queensland using remotely piloted aircraft. Continue reading
Cassidian has launched its TANAN 300 new-generation compact VTOL Tactical UAS for maritime and land missions. Continue reading
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems has announced today that its Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System logged 168 flight hours in the frigid, harsh climate of Antarctica, supporting meteorological research by the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Continue reading