Azerbaijan Defence Industry Minister, Yavar Jamalov, announced at IDEF-2011 in Istanbul that the Defence Industry Ministry of Azerbaijan plans to produce 60 unmanned aircraft by the end of the year.
Category Archives: Military UAS
Dynamics Research Corporation $25M Support Contract for Predator/Reaper Programme
Dynamics Research Corporation announced that it has been awarded two delivery orders with a combined value of $24.5 million for a base year with an additional option year period of performance.
Alenia Aeronautica Seeks Partner for NextGen MALE UAS
(c) Alenia Aeronautica
Alenia Aeronautica is looking for a partner to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system to rival the Franco-British venture announced earlier this year by BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation.
US Air Force $200M Jammer Pod Programme for Reaper
Four contractors will compete for a $200 million US Air Force programme to develop and produce an electronic attack (EA) pod that will be installed on unmanned aircraft systems and manned aircraft.
Firebird Offers Real-Time Hi-Def Video
Military users will be able to get real-time high-definition video, view infrared imagery, use radar and even listen in on communications signals – all at the same time – using a new intelligence-gathering aircraft system unveiled by Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Northrop Grumman Firebird Revealed
Northrop Grumman is planning to publicly unveil its secret Firebird aircraft later this month at the Pentagon’s Empire Challenge – an exercise designed to demonstrate intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies that can be fielded quickly.
US Air Force Plans to Move Reapers to East Asia
MQ-9-Reaper
The U.S. Air Force is planning to move much of its UAS force from Iraq and Afghanistan to East Asia over the next four years. Currently, the Air Force has 53 MQ-1As Predator and MQ-9 Reaper UAVs operating in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Unmanned Airlift System Decision Coming Soon
The US Navy awarded two fixed-price contracts to Boeing/Frontier Systems and Lockheed Martin for their unmanned A160T Hummingbird ($29.9 million) and KMAX ($45.8 million), for Cargo Unmanned Aircraft System services in December last year. A decision is now expected some time this summer on which system to send to theatre, with an initial 6-month deployment scheduled for autumn 2011.