An Iranian TV station appears to have faked dozens of accounts of US drone strikes in Somalia which it says have killed hundreds of civilians. Continue reading
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AeroVironment UAS Sales Up 25% in Q3 to $67M
Boosted by an increase in sales, AeroVironment Inc. exceeded analyst estimates and reported $6.6 million in second-quarter profit, a large increase over the same period a year ago. Continue reading
DARPA Wants to Work with Smartphone App Developers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has kicked off an initiative to develop advanced applications capable of coordinating various intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) programmes. Continue reading
NASA Unmanned Aircraft Measures Low Altitude Greenhouse Gases
NASA researchers have demonstrated the use of an unmanned aircraft to collect very low altitude airborne measurements of greenhouse gases at several sites in California and Nevada.
UAS Lost In Iran was Operated by CIA – Officials Admit
The unmanned surveillance aircraft lost by the United States in Iran was indeed a stealth aircraft being used for secret missions by the CIA, US officials admitted on Monday. Continue reading
Schiebel Camcopter S-100 Flies At LIMA Exhibition, Malaysia
Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 is the only UAS taking part in the flight displays at the LIMA (Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace) Exhibition from 6th to 10th December 2011. Continue reading
Brock’s Havoc Completes First Flight
Brock Technologies has announced that its Havoc Unmanned Aircraft System undertook its first flight on 24 October 2011. Continue reading
US Naval Research Laboratory Autonomous Deployment Demonstration Programme Completes Flight Testing
Tempest UAV airframe, designed and built by UASUSA, Boulder, Col., has a wingspan of nearly 10 feet and is constructed using fibreglass and carbon fibre composites
The Naval Research Laboratory Vehicle Research Section has successfully completed flight tests for the Autonomous Deployment Demonstration (ADD) programme. Continue reading