General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced the successful demonstration of an early prototype of its Due Regard Radar on a manned aircraft. The Due Regard Radar is a company-funded system that supports GA-ASI’s overall radar-based airborne sense-and-avoid architecture for its Predator B UAS. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Iranian University Micro-UAVs on Display
Since the capture of the US RQ-170, Tehran has been using the media to display its capability to reverse engineer or build its own unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
Ex-FIFA Soccer Referee Confirms Microdrones Record-Breaking Endurance Flight
Microdrones staged this stunt in a film studio using Urs Meier, a former FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) soccer referee as an impartial judge, to demonstrate the long endurance of its md4-1000. Continue reading
Dubai Students Build UAS
Two Emirati students at Dubai Men’s College have built one of UAE’s first home-grown unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
Heron Flies for EU Border Agency FRONTEX
Israel Aerospace Industries‘ Heron was recently demonstrated successfully and according to the plan, this time in Greece, as part of a demonstration held by the European Union agency, Frontex. Continue reading
IAI Panther Demonstrates C²Strike System
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is finalising development of C²Strike – a command, communication, surveillance and strike integrated system designated for tactical use and based on the Panther UAS special capabilities. Continue reading
Canadian Navy Tests ScanEagle in the Mediterranean
Aboard HMCS Charlottetown, the ship’s team and civilian technicians from ING Engineering place the launch and recovery equipment for the ScanEagle on the flight deck: the catapult launcher on the starboard side, and the recovery system — a device based on the Insitu SkyHook — on the port side - Photo : MCpl Robin Mugridge
When HMCS Charlottetown deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for Operation ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR, she took with her a potent surveillance and reconnaissance capability that is new to Canadian warships: the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, a small, low-cost, long-endurance UAS built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing. Continue reading
BAE Demonstrates UAS Recovery Capability
BAE Systems has for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability for an unmanned aircraft to recover to an airfield that is unfamiliar to its mission system. Continue reading