Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the newest RQ-4 Global Hawk completed the first of many production acceptance flights of an operational Block 30 multi-intelligence sensor package on May 25, flown from Palmdale, California.
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Back Inside the Quadrotor Thunderdome with Kinect
This video was taken inside the Quadrotor Thunderdome in Zurich, aka the Flying Machine Arena at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, part of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich).
Lockheed Martin KMAX Begins Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) Tests
The Navy and Marine Corps plans to field a cargo unmanned aircraft system are moving forward as the first of two potential UAS helicopters landed at Pax River, July 1.
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Kansas University Meridian Monitors Ice Flow
Kansas University’s school of Aerospace Engineering (KUAE) has used MTM®45-1 prepreg from Advanced Composites Group (ACG) to build a fleet of Meridian UAS designed to monitor the flow of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Continue reading
China Speeds Up UAS Development Programmes
No country has intensified its research in recent years faster than China – now every major manufacturer for the Chinese military has a research centre devoted to UAS. Much of this work remains secret, but it is clear that China is determined to catch up — by building equivalents to the leading U.S. combat and surveillance models, the Predator and the Global Hawk — and also it has a desire to sell this technology abroad.
Neuron Assembly Programme On Schedule
Dassault released photographs of the Neuron UCAV (unmanned combat air vehicle) demonstrator in final assembly at Istres, France, and confirmed that the six-nation collaborative programme is on schedule.
US Navy Tests UAS Automatic Landing on Aircraft Carrier
A F/A-18D from the "Salty Dogs" of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 makes and arrested landing aboard aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower ((U.S. Navy photo)
The US Navy is one step closer to demonstrating the first carrier-based recoveries and launches of an autonomous, low-observable relevant unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
Unmanned Video Gags
This video of ‘spectacularly unsuccessful’ experiments performed at the GRASP Lab was posted on YouTube last week – it could well have been a sequence from a ‘video gags’ TV show…