The Ukrspecsystems team recently participated in a demonstration for a foreign delegation. The PD-2 UAS automatic takeoff and landing, operating under heavy rain and strong wind at the speed of 10 m/s, and surveillance of an ATGM hitting a target at a 2 km distance. Continue reading
Category Archives: Military UAS
Crew Ordered to Crash MQ-9 After ‘Catastrophic’ Fuel Leak
An MQ-9 suffered a catastrophic fuel leak while flying in an undisclosed area of Africa, prompting the crew to crash the Reaper as hard as possible into the ground to avoid a successful recovery of the aircraft, according to an Air Force investigation released June 4. Continue reading
Latvia May Be Second NATO Ally to Buy Turkish Drones
Latvian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Artis Pabriks (L) and Baykar Makina’s General Manager Haluk Bayraktar at Baykar Makina’s R&D and production facilities, Ankara, Turkey, June 7, 2021
Latvia has signaled it could be the second European Union and NATO member state to acquire Turkish armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that have scored high-profile successes in the field, following last month’s purchase by Poland. Continue reading
Insitu Teams with Norwegian Firms for Arctic Circle Operations
Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, announced a strategic alliance with Norwegian-based Robot Aviation and Andøya Space to promote the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) ecosystem in the Arctic and High North. Continue reading
Boeing MQ-25A Unmanned Aerial Tanker Refuels F/A-18 Hornet in Successful First Test
The Boeing MQ-25 T1 test asset transfers fuel to a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet on June 4, 2021
For the first time in history, the U.S. Navy and Boeing have demonstrated air-to-air refueling using an unmanned aircraft – the Boeing-owned MQ-25 T1 test asset – to refuel another aircraft. Continue reading
5th-Gen Sukhoi Su-57 to Control 4 Strike Drones
Sukhoi Su-57 with Okhotnik
A pilot of the Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation fighter jet will simultaneously coordinate the operations of four latest Okhotnik heavy strike drones, a source in the domestic aircraft-building industry told TASS on Tuesday. Continue reading
GA-ASI Gets $11M US Navy MQ-9 Reaper Support Contract
General Atomics, Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, is awarded an $11,183,991 firm-fixed-price modification (P00014) to a previously awarded contract (N0001918C1063). Continue reading
Russian Drones to Get Precision Navigation System
Russian unmanned aerial vehicles will be outfitted with a unique strapdown inertial navigation system produced by KRET Group within the state tech corporation Rostec, the Rostec press office reported on Friday. Continue reading