Lockheed Martin just posted this new video about the K-Max deployment to Afghanistan. Within 75 days of being shipped out it was undertaking its first resupply mission. Continue reading
Category Archives: VTOL
UNOSAT Gets Microdrones Quadrocopter
UNOSAT took delivery today of its second UAS in a little over one month, this time a so-called quadrocopter. Continue reading
Los Angeles Police Department Warns Real Estate Agents Against Using UAS Footage
The Los Angeles Police Department is warning real estate agents not to use images of properties taken from unmanned aircraft, saying the flying drones pose a potential safety hazard and could violate federal aviation policy. Continue reading
AAI Offers VTOL Design for US Navy Medium-Range Maritime UAS
Concept: AAI, via Mike Hirschberg
AAI Corp. is proposing a new vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) design for the U.S. Navy’s medium-range maritime unmanned aerial system (MRMUAS) requirement. Continue reading
Miami-Dade Police Department MAVs Ready for Use
The Miami-Dade Police Department finally stands ready to launch their two Honeywell T-Hawk micro air vehicles, or MAVs, the next time a shooting standoff or hostage situation could use a bird’s eye boost, more than two years after acquiring the equipment. Continue reading
ARGUS Being Tested on Hummingbirds for Afghanistan
Next Media Animation prepared this clip to demonstrate ultra-powerful Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System, or ARGUS that is being fitted on three Boeing A160 Hummingbirds being deployed to Afghanistan this spring. Continue reading
K-Max First Cargo Flight in Afghanistan
A detachment of US Marines recently completed the first unmanned aircraft system cargo delivery in a combat zone with a remotely-piloted helicopter, moving about 3,500 pounds of supplies from Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan to Combat Outpost Payne. Continue reading
US Army Sees Bright Future for VTOL UAS
Lt. Col. Hilton Nunez, with Army G-2, talks with Steve Bond of Northrop Grumman about the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle, near a model of the LEMV, during the Association of the United States Army Aviation Symposium and Exposition - Photo: C. Todd Lopez
During the Association of the United States Army Aviation Symposium and Exposition, just outside Washington, D.C. on January 12th., Lieutenant General Robert P. Lennox, Deputy Chief of Staff, Army G-8, touched on the future of vertical take-off and landing unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading