“A good number” of unmanned US military and intelligence unmanned aircraft are operating in the skies over Syria, monitoring the Syrian military’s attacks against opposition forces and innocent civilians alike, US defence officials told NBC News’ Jim Miklaszewski. Continue reading
Category Archives: Military UAS
Indian Navy UAS Crashes on South East Coast
An Indian Navy unmanned aircraft crashed into a hill at Ganesh Nagar, Vizag, near Gajuwaka RTC depot on Thursday afternoon with residents in the area that is close to Eastern Naval Command (ENC) grateful that a major tragedy had been averted. Continue reading
Insitu Delivers Integrator to US Marine Corps
Insitu Inc. has announced that it has delivered and flown one of two Integrator Unmanned Aircraft Systems that will provide the U.S. Marine Corps an early operational capability for the Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) programme. Continue reading
US Navy Cancels Medium-Range Maritime UAS Programme
Bell/Northrop Grumman MQ-8C ‘Fire X’
The US Navy has cancelled its medium-range maritime unmanned air system (MRMUAS) programme, which was to produce a vertical-lift UAS to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services for up to 8 hours. Continue reading
US Department of Defense to Spend $5.78 billion on Unmanned Vehicles in 2013
Officials of the US Department of Defense (DoD) plan to spend at least $5.78 billion to buy and develop unmanned vehicles and unmanned vehicle payloads next year, according to data in the Pentagon’s budget documents released this week. Continue reading
DARPA To Develop Mobile Hotspots via UAS
DARPA is looking to develop an advanced communications backbone to support dismounted warfighters in austere locations. Continue reading
Blade Arrow Precision Attack Munition from UVision
UVision Air Ltd. has unveiled the Blade Arrow Precision Attack Munition (PAM) five years after it was first demonstrated. Continue reading
Canadian Navy Tests ScanEagle in the Mediterranean
Aboard HMCS Charlottetown, the ship’s team and civilian technicians from ING Engineering place the launch and recovery equipment for the ScanEagle on the flight deck: the catapult launcher on the starboard side, and the recovery system — a device based on the Insitu SkyHook — on the port side - Photo : MCpl Robin Mugridge
When HMCS Charlottetown deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for Operation ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR, she took with her a potent surveillance and reconnaissance capability that is new to Canadian warships: the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, a small, low-cost, long-endurance UAS built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing. Continue reading