Blue Bear and General Dynamics UK have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to mutually support each other in the promotion of their respective capabilities and products and will exhibit the Redkite UAS on the General Dynamics UK stand at DSEi this week. Continue reading
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Northrop Grumman Unmanned Portfolio Achieves 100,000 Flight Hours Over Last 15 Years
Northrop Grumman Corporation‘s portfolio of high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have achieved 100,000 flight hours – more than 88 percent of which were logged by the U.S. Air Force Global Hawk. The remaining hours were flown by the NASA Global Hawks, the German EURO HAWK, and the U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator and, more recently, Triton UAS. Continue reading
Watchkeeper Spend Hits $1.3 Billion
The UK Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology Philip Dunne on 5 September revealed that the Ministry of Defence had spent £831 million ($1.3 billion) on the Watchkeeper programme by the end of the 2012-2013 financial year. Continue reading
Mainstream Engineering Gets US Air Force Contract for Hybrid Electric UAS Propulsion System
Mainstream Engineering Corporation, a 27-year-old Brevard County research and manufacturing company, has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a hybrid electric propulsion system to support a rapid-response small unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Continue reading
UAE and Russia to Build UCAV Based on Helicopter
Defence firms in the United Arab Emirates and Russia are planning to develop an unmanned combat aerial vehicle based on Russia’s Berkut VL helicopter, that craft’s Russian developer said on Monday. Continue reading
Sky Sapience Delivers Pre-Production Hovermast to Israel Defense Forces
Israel’s Sky Sapience company has delivered to the Israel Defense Forces’ Land Forces Command the first pre-production example of the HoverMast 100 – an autonomous, tethered hovercraft carrying a stabilized electro-optical payload. The system was delivered at a proving ground on the slopes of Mt. Carmel, where the company regularly tests the systems. Continue reading
FLIR Gets $137M Multi-Sensor Targeting Imager Contract from US Navy
U.S. Navy avionics experts needed multi-sensor electro-optical targeting systems for the UH-1 manned helicopter, the MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned helicopter, and other unmanned vertical takeoff unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). They found their solution from FLIR Systems Inc.. Continue reading
Crowdfunding Sought for Open Source Programmable Flying Robot
A new Kickstarter campaign has been launched to create a programmable flying robot called Spiri. Spiri is a versatile, airborne Linux device with sensors, cameras, wifi, cloud support, development tools and more. Continue reading