Commander of Khatom ol-Anbia Air Defence Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli said now Iran can trace and shoot down small UAS over its airspace. Continue reading
Category Archives: News
MQ-9 Reapers to Start Training Flights from Fort Drum
The 174th Fighter Wing, which has been operating unmanned aircraft over Afghanistan for nearly two years is about to start flying them out of Fort Drum and over Northern New York. Continue reading
US Supreme Court Confirms Prison for Professor who Violated the Arms Export Control Act
The Supreme Court will not order a new trial for a University of Tennessee professor convicted of giving foreigners access to sensitive data on military unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
Plot to Fly Model Planes Filled with C-4 Explosives into the Pentagon Foiled
F-86 Sabre - Photo: US Department of Justice/Reuters
Yesterday the FBI arrested Rezwan Ferdaus for a plot involving an attack on the Pentagon and the US Capitol using explosives mounted on remotely piloted model aircraft, bombing bridges in Washington, DC, and killing politicians; and for attempting to kill US soldiers overseas.
AAI Gets $119M Shadow Upgrade and Maintenance Contract from US Army
AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Md., was awarded a $118,792,331 firm-fixed-price contract. Continue reading
10 Flocking Unmanned Aircraft
Inexpensive and easy to use MAVs, developed by Severin Leven and Swiss-based Sensefly, are shown here to be able to flock in formations up to ten aircraft. Continue reading
Southampton University Programme Develops Civilian UAS
The Guardian UK’s Owen Bowcott joins Professors Jim Scanlan and Andy Keane from the University of Southampton, who are developing data-gathering unmanned aircraft for commercial and civilian use. Continue reading
US Reaper Bases in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Seychelles – WikiLeaks
The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret unmanned aircraft bases for counter-terrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen. Continue reading