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
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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
Boston Police Chief Considers UAS for Next Marathon
Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis is pushing for a city-run system of eye-level street surveillance technology and making a case for a dedicated NYPD-style anti-terrorism unit to protect Boston from another soft-target strike like the deadly marathon bombing. Continue reading
RAF Starts Operating Armed Reapers Out of the UK
The UK Ministry of Defence announced on Thursday, for the first time, armed UAS used to target insurgents in Afghanistan are now being operated out of the UK . Continue reading
Long-Endurance UAS Still an Elusive Goal
Long-endurance flight has long been the holy grail of U.S. unmanned airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, but the quest so far has been worthy of a Monty Python film. Continue reading