The US Special Operations Command is looking for a new contractor to provide and manage a fleet of medium-range unmanned aerial vehicles,, and has put out the call to industry ahead of an early 2015 lapse in its contractor-provided ISR support.
Category Archives: Military UAS
Russia’s Arctic Group to Flight Test Orlan-10 UAS
The first trial flights in low temperature conditions of the Orlan-10 UAS, just delivered to a unit of the Eastern Military District in Chukotka, are planned in early 2015.
US Air Force RPAS Fleet Short of Manpower
The U.S. Air Force’s fleet of RPAS is being strained to the “breaking point,” according to senior military officials and an internal service memo acquired by The Daily Beast. And it’s happening right when the unmanned aircraft are most needed to fight ISIS. The Air Force has enough MQ-1 Predators and MQ-9 Reapers. It just doesn’t have the manpower to operate these machines. Continue reading
India to Buy Global Hawks ?
India and the U.S. are negotiating a deal for the purchase of high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).
Iran’s ScanEagle Clone – New Photos
Recently published ABNA.ir photos of Iranian-built Yasir UAV claimed in use with Harakat Hizballah al-Nujaba (HHN): an Iraqi Shia militia allied with Iran. Continue reading
Corsair UAS for Russia in 2016
Russia’s United Instrument Corporation (UIC) will start supplying the small-class Corsair surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Russian Armed Forces in late 2016, the company’s CEO Alexander Yakunin told RIA Novosti. Continue reading
MQ-8C Fire Scout First Flight on USS Jason Dunham
The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully flew the MQ-8C Fire Scout system for the first time off the guided-missile destroyer, USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109), Dec. 16, off the Virginia coast. Continue reading
Drone Sensors Sniff Out IEDs
One of the gravest dangers to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last decade has been improvised explosive devices. Two-thirds of all casualties in Iraq have been caused by the crudely made bombs, Pentagon data show. The story is largely the same in Afghanistan, where IED attacks accounted for 61 percent of all reported casualties through the end of last month. Continue reading