The British military now has 500 UAS and has been looking for ways to increase the amount of UK airspace in which to fly some of them, according to the Guardian newspaper. Continue reading
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Raven Counts Cranes in Wildlife Park
Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado. — An electric whir filled the air of this high desert valley as Jeff Sloan, a cartographer for the United States Geological Survey, hurled a small remote-controlled airplane into the sky. Continue reading
Canada Wants UAS to Supply Arctic Missions
Canada’s military wants its next unmanned aircraft system to be capable of dropping search-and-rescue supplies in the Arctic and in other areas as it looks to expand UAS roles into activities formerly conducted by manned platforms. Continue reading
Indonesia Prepares Mass Production of UAS
Indonesia has announced that it will begin to mass-produce unmanned surveillance aircraft this year. Analysts say Indonesia’s local UAS development and production is part of a broader trend of rapidly modernizing militaries in the Asia Pacific. Continue reading
Virgin Galactic Breaks Speed of Sound in 1st Rocket-Powered Flight of SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s aabar Investments PJS, completed the first rocket-powered flight of its space vehicle, SpaceShipTwo (SS2) on April 29. Continue reading
Validated RPAS Designs, Tooling & Jigs Available
Tasuma is a UK company that has been trading for over 30 years and that is specialised in the manufacture RPA airframes, usually under sub-contract to system primes. Over the years, Tasuma has been involved in most UK RPAS programmes. Continue reading
Epson Announces Two New Inertial Measurement Units for Industry
Epson Electronics America (EEA) has developed two products, the M-G550-PC and the M-G550-PR, for its inertial measurement units (IMU) range. The new products will be on display at Sensor + Test 2013, the world’s largest international fair for sensors to be held from May 14th – 16th in Nuremburg, Germany. The new 6-DOF*2 IMUs, which have gyroscopic sensors on three axes and accelerometers on three directions, also have built-in support for two widely used industrial interfaces: the CAN*3 protocol in the case of the M-G550-PC and the RS-422*4 in the case of the M-G550-PR. Continue reading
Israeli F-16 Downs Another Hezbollah UAS
An Israeli Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16 has shot down an unmanned aircraft launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah militants. The threat was detected over the Mediterranean sea on 25 April and was destroyed shortly after by an air-to-air missile. Continue reading