Singular Aircraft has announced that it is developing a low cost unmanned, amphibious, twin-engined aircraft able to land and take off from short unpaved airstrips & water. Continue reading
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Gill Sensors Announces Next-Generation Miniature Position Sensors
Gill Sensors, a developer of specialist non-contact inductive position sensors, has announced the availability of its next-generation micro position sensor technology for robotics and unmanned systems applications. Continue reading
US Telecoms Cos Oppose Federal Communications Commission Aerostat Emergency Link Plan
Some of the major wireless carriers and public safety organizations are shooting down an idea by the Federal Communications Commission that would allow the launch of communications-carrying UAS or other aircraft to act as temporary links when telecommunications go down in a disaster. Continue reading
US Marine Corps Extends Use of K-MAX in Afghanistan
U.S. Marine Corps officials have extended the deployment of the K-MAX Cargo. The Marine Corps supplies forward operating bases with K-MAX, rather than with a ground convoy or manned aircraft, to reduce the threat posed to personnel by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Continue reading
IAI Announces Upgraded Heron NG
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is offering an upgraded version of its best-selling unmanned air system (UAS), with the Heron NG to carry an enhanced multi-sensor payload. Continue reading
Tech Source New Low Power H264 Compression Card
Tech Source, Inc. has unveiled the low power Condor VC 100x H.264 video capture and compression card, designed to ease the video compression challenges in unmanned aircraft and in other surveillance, image detection and video recording applications. Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Sea Ghost Jet UCLASS UAS – Update
Lockheed Martin released the first official teaser image of its Sea Ghost jet-powered UAS. Along with previously disclosed designs from rivals Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Atomics, the Sea Ghost will go head-to-head for a Navy contract to put fast, stealthy, missile- and bomb-armed UAS on the decks of aircraft carriers by 2018. Continue reading
Cornell University Researchers Develop Anti-Spoofing Technolgy for GPS
Global positioning system (GPS) technology is everywhere — and Cornell researchers have known for years that it can be hacked, or as they call it, “spoofed.” The best defence, they say, is to create countermeasures that unscrupulous GPS spoofers can not deceive. Continue reading