With a small crowd of legislators and civic leaders observing, a nonprofit group launched a small, unmanned aircraft at the former runway at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana early 0n Wednesday morning. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
DARPA Reveals Mule Robot
Military researchers working for the Pentagon have released video footage of one of its newest projects, the Legged Squad Support System LS3, and are touting the creation as a cyborg-style animal-drone that will aid troops across a variety of terrains. Continue reading
GA-ASI Demonstrates Interoperability of Predator-Class ISR Aircraft Systems at NATO Trials
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. just announced its successful participation in NATO’s Unified Vision (UV12) Trial at Orland Main Air Station in Brekstad, Norway, June 18-29. Continue reading
U.S. Navy and Marines Begin RQ-21 Developmental Flight Testing
A little more than two years into it’s engineering, manufacturing and development phase, the RQ-21A Small Tactical Unmanned Air System (STUAS) entered developmental test at China Lake, California beginning with a 66-minute flight on Monday. Continue reading
Life-Saving UAS Tested at Burning Man
A humanitarian group called Ideate recently tested UAS’ viability as a real-world delivery vehicle in one of the harshest, most brutal environments imaginable — Burning Man. Continue reading
Aerie Video of Its Unusual IAV Configuration
AERIE just posted its first video showing prototypes of its IAV in development, as well as some flying and hovering footage released for the first time. Continue reading
Inside Boeing’s Wind-Tunnel Model Shop
Boeing just posted this video of its wind tunnel model shop in Seattle. Continue reading
Fury 1500 Tactical UAS Achieves SATCOM Video Downlink, Delivers Beyond Line of Sight Capability
A Fury 1500 tactical unmanned aircraft system from AME Unmanned Air Systems (AME UAS) transmitted live, full-motion video to a ground terminal over a high-bandwidth commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) satellite communications (SATCOM) link. Continue reading