As many as 66 countries would be eligible to buy American UAS under new Defense Department guidelines but Congress and the State Department, which have a final say, have not yet opened the spigots for exports, a senior Pentagon official said on Wednesday. Continue reading
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MQ-1B Predator Crash Due to Engine Failure – Accident Board Report
Irreversible engine failure caused the crash of an MQ-1B Predator April 14, 2012, into an unpopulated mountainside in Afghanistan, according to an Air Combat Command Abbreviated Accident Investigation Board report released on Tuesday. Continue reading
General Atomics MQ-9 Block 1-plus Aircraft Completes Successful First Flight
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced the successful first flight of the Block 1-plus Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper, an upgrade to the original Block 1 Predator B that has been in production since 2003. Continue reading
Aeroscraft Zeppelin Combines Aircraft and Airship Technologies
Inside the 17-story mammoth wooden blimp hangars at the former military base in Tustin that rise above southern Orange County, Worldwide Aeros Corp. is building a blimp-like airship designed for the military to carry tons of cargo to remote areas around the world. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Unmanned Power – Video
Northrop Grumman posted this promo video on YouTube. Continue reading
Hermes 900 and Heron 1 in Final Flight Tests for Swiss Air Force Contract
In-flight evaluations will take place in September and October on the Emmen airbase for the acquisition of new unmanned aircraft reconnaissance system (ADS 15). Continue reading
Spain’s Searchers Reach 500 Missions in Afghanistan
The Spanish Army has completed its first 500 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions in Afghanistan using Israel Aerospace Industries Searcher II. Continue reading
Space Computer Gets $2M US Air Force Contract for Hyperspectral Sensors for MQ-1 Predator
U.S. Air Force researchers are choosing embedded computing experts at Space Computer Corp. in Los Angeles to upgrade sensor processing in the Air Force Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System Hyperspectral (ACES Hy) side-mounted persistent-surveillance sensor for the MQ-1 Predator. Continue reading