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Keymerging Technologies Ltd has purchased ING Robotic Aviation’s Responder rotary wing unmanned aerial vehicle systems for use in East Africa. The robotic aircraft will be used for aerial surveillance with both electro-optical and infrared cameras, in order to provide a wide range of imagery and monitoring support for their clients. Continue reading
Last November Lehmann Aviation launched the LA100, a small and fully autonomous UAS designed to capture aerial images with a user-supplied GoPro camera. Now the French company is offering two new models that go farther and stay in the air longer.
Sentient has announced that both Kestrel Land Moving Target Indicator (MTI) and Kestrel Maritime automated target detection capabilities have been selected by CarteNav Solutions Inc. to enhance its AIMS-HD moving map display (MMD) and sensor management system (SMS), addressing urgent operational requirements in Latin America. Continue reading
Despite all the publicity that American UAS receive, the major exporter of UAS has been Israel. Between 2002 and 2012, Israel exported $4.7 billion worth of UAS, approximately twice as much as the US. Continue reading
The Spanish Air Force is in initial negotiations with Israel Aerospace Industries about a possible purchase of Heron 1 unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading
Insitu Inc. is being awarded an $8,528,000 firm-fixed-price delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement to address hardware obsolescence issues and align two previously delivered early operational capability RQ-21A small tactical unmanned aircraft systems to the current system configuration. Continue reading
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Northrop Grumman partnered with Wind River to deliver the software platform for the U.S. Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstration aircraft. Tighe Parmenter, manager of X-47B Navy UCAS business strategy and development, discusses how they relied on Wind River and the X-47B Joint Industry Team (JIT) to deliver this system. Continue reading
Orbital has announced that it has been awarded a contract for the development of a production engine for a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS). This United States customer has provided 24/7/365 operations for customers worldwide and has been delivering Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for both land and maritime missions. Continue reading