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Operators of the Navy’s experimental unmanned helicopter were unable to complete a single practice mission at Webster Field in St. Inigoes this year before deploying with the system to Afghanistan, according to a Pentagon report released last month. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman and Cassidian have announced that the first EURO HAWK will land in Germany on July 19, 2011. The aircraft, which will take off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is expected to touch down at the Manching Air Base at approximately 10:00 Central European Summer Time.
Using real-time video imagery distributed from Northrop Grumman Corporation’s on-demand intelligence system, Marines successfully completed live-fire targeting exercises on the Marine Corps’ extensive ranges Twentynine Palms, California.
Aurora Flight Sciences announced that its Centaur optionally-piloted aircraft has successfully completed its first fully automatic landings. The tests were conducted at Warrenton, Virginia.
Four American companies will demonstrate concepts for an unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (UCLASS) aircraft to the U.S. Navy.
World Surveillance Group Inc. has announced that it has completed additional testing of its Argus One UAV in Easton, Maryland in preparation for the airship’s flight testing and demonstration at the U.S. Army’s proving ground facility in Yuma, Arizona.
On a two-day trip to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska earlier this month, researchers from Poker Flat Research Range evaluated the performance of a new unmanned aircraft system that will be used to monitor Steller sea lions.
Photo Taken Using SLAM Algorithm during Tests at the Great Plains Joint Training Center’s Crisis City
Kansas State University’s Dale Schinstock has developed and continues to refine an algorithm that allows sensors on an unmanned aircraft to build a map of the environment and determine its location in that map.