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Electromagnetic interference (EMI) testing on the European version of Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk– the Euro Hawk – was performed recently by engineers with the 772nd Test Squadron at the Benefield Anechoic facility (BAF) at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
The AAI RQ-7B Shadow 200 Tactical UAS, which won the prestigious Performance-Based Logistics Award from the Secretary of Defence last autumn, continues to improve performance and efficiency after 600,000 combat hours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Boeing’s unmanned hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye HALE demonstrator aircraft has arrived at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Centre for assembly and preparations for flight tests.
The US Naval Air Systems Command has posted a Broad Agency Announcement seeking proposals which conceptually demonstrate that a UCLASS system can provide a persistent Carrier Vessel-Nuclear (CVN) based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and strike capability supporting carrier air wing operations in the 2018 timeframe.
The U.S. Army will use a General Atomics’ MQ-1C Gray Eagle this spring to flight-test a new system of multiple sensors that can be controlled by ground troops or aircraft crews. The Triclops system adds a sensor under each wing to the fuselage sensor carried by UAS.
The US Navy’s Fleet and Industrial Supply Centre, Norfolk, Philadelphia Office wants to lease two UAS to “replicate a likely threat in visual, aural, and most importantly IR and RCS signatures at a series of training events”. The first event will take place in June 2011 on San Clemente Island, CA.
