Cassidian has confirmed plans to launch a new flight-test campaign with its Barracuda unmanned combat aircraft technology demonstrator later this year. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
RUAG’s Laser-Based Automatic UAS Landing System
Swiss company RUAG has developed OPATS (Object Position and Tracking Sensor) – a laser-based automatic landing system for UAS that represents a cost-efficient alternative to radar-based landing systems. Continue reading
Boeing Develops Off-Grid Refuelling for UAS
ITM Power has signed an Equipment Development and Lease Agreement with Boeing Research & Technology Europe S.L.U. for the development, assembly and field trials of a 1 Nm3/hour (2.1 kg/day) PEM electrolyser. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Continues Flight Tests of Multifunction Active Sensor Radar for BAMS
Northrop Grumman's G-II Test Bed Aircraft with Multi-Function Active Sensor 360 Degree Rotating Radar Mounted in the Belly Fairing
Northrop Grumman Corporation continues flight tests of the first developmental multifunction active sensor (MFAS) radar destined for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS).
University of Colorado Develops Supersonic Unmanned Aircraft
A rendering by Master's Degree student Greg Rancourt. (Courtesy Ryan Starkey)
Propulsion by a novel jet engine is the crux of the innovation behind a University of Colorado Boulder-developed aircraft that’s accelerating toward commercialisation. Continue reading
China’s Sunward Tech VTOL UAS Maiden Flight
This video* shows China’s Sunward Tech Star-lite SVU200 vertical take-off and landing unmanned aircraft during its maiden flight. Continue reading
GA-ASI Successfully Tests Sense-and-Avoid Radar on Manned Aircraft
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
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