Not much ever makes it into the general media about Unmanned Aerial Systems like the Lockheed Martin Stalker XE, but two of them were destroyed in accidents in Victoria last week that are now being investigated by the ATSB.
Category Archives: Military UAS
AAI Gets $205M Shadow Contract for Australia
AAI Corporation was awarded a $206,561,704 cost-plus-fixed-fee foreign military sales (Australia) contract for contractor logistics sustainment services for Shadow RQ-7B unmanned aerial systems.
ScanEagle Lands in Smithsonian Museum
ScanEagle, the gorge-made robotic aircraft that has logged almost one million hours of flight, has landed in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum collection. Continue reading
AeroVironment Gets $10M Contract from Dutch MoD
AeroVironment, Inc. has announced the receipt of a contract from the Netherlands Ministry of Defence on October 14 for small UAS, upgrades and support services totaling $10,321,375. Delivery is anticipated within six months.
Iran’s Water-Skimming Suicide Drone
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard has claimed to have developed a ‘suicide drone’ capable of delivering explosives to blow up targets both at sea and on land.
Prototype 600 Gram Russian Surveillance Drone
A prototype of a hand-launched spy drone weighing roughly 21 ounces has been built at an engineering center in Samara, Russian, a defense industry source told RIA Novosti. Continue reading
Battle Lab Tests Unmanned Aircraft
The Maneuver Battle Lab hosted the Technical Cooperation Program for a week of testing unmanned aircraft systems at the McKenna Urban Operations Complex Oct. 17-21.
US Air Force Envisions “Ender’s Game” Scenario for Swarming UAVs
The US Air Force wants to go beyond the traditional ground control station controlling a single aircraft and manage swarms of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) with the wave of a hand. Continue reading