U.S. Navy unmanned surveillance experts needed a synthetic aperture/ground moving target indicator (GMTI) radar for small military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). They found their solution from IMSAR LLC in Springville, Utah. Continue reading
New Spraying Drone Deals with Spray Drift
Forward Robotics’ fixed-wing hybrid drone, the U7AG
Drones designed to spray broad- acre agricultural crops usually use fine droplets with a low water-to-chemical ratio to try and make up for their limited fluid carrying capacity. This greatly limits their use, because extremely low water volumes are off-label and fine droplets are prone to drift, where they might take out a neighbour’s crop. Continue reading
AAR Selects French Aircraft Drone Inspection Solution
Donecle has announced that AAR, a leading independent MRO provider in North America, has selected its automated drone solution to improve the efficiency and reliability of visual inspections during base maintenance. Continue reading
UK House of Commons Report Issues Drone Regulation Recommendations
A committee of the UK’s House of Commons issued a report Oct. 8 calling for greater drone regulations, including registration, drone ID transmission, and geofencing around sensitive locations. Continue reading
Second Airbus Zephyr Crashes During Test Flight
An Airbus Zephyr high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) has crashed while on a test flight in Australia, marking the second crash this year. Continue reading
C-Astral ATLAS C4EYE in Benchmark Trials with NATO
C-Astral, the Slovenia based integrator of small unmanned systems, has been successfully fielding its new mini UAS ATLAS C4EYE (Advanced Technology Light Acquisition/ATAK System) in a series of closed trials, involving the cooperation of manned, unmanned and NATO JTAC assets. Continue reading
Northrop Readies Hatchet Glide Munition for Platform Integration
Northrop Grumman has achieved a technical readiness level (TRL) 7 milestone with its Hatchet unpowered precision strike munition, following the completion of a campaign of live end-to-end guide-to-hit trials in August. The next milestone will be full platform integration. Continue reading
uAvionix Acquires AeroVonics
uAvionix has announced that it has acquired AeroVonics LLC, an exciting startup avionics company based in Albuquerque, NM. The acquisition marks uAvionix’s first foray into advanced digital cockpit displays for the General Aviation (GA) market.