Institu currently has “between 12 and 15 active pursuits right now in the Middle East region,” Mark Russell, the company’s business development manager told reporters. Each potential sale consists of six Institu ScanEagle surveillance UAS and four Institu Interceptor UAS. Continue reading
Successful UAV Anti Poaching Trials in Tanzania
Bathawk Recon, a Tanzanian UAV Anti Poaching surveillance company, has hosted UAV trials at Mkomazi National Park. The trials featured the American made Super Bat DA-50 and were held 12th to 16th September. They were set up to determine if the gas powered long endurance drone could meet Bathawk’s anti-poaching concept requirements. After 5 days of flights the Super Bat has hit all the targets. Continue reading
Plextek Develops New UAS Technologies for Urban Environments
Under the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s (DSTL) three-year Autonomous Systems Underpinning Research (ASUR) programme, which aims to develop key technologies for unmanned systems, Plextek is developing sense-and-avoid, communications and camouflage systems that are compact and power-efficient enough to be used on small UAVs. Continue reading
Aeryon Integrates TSM Technology with Skyranger
Aeryon Labs, a provider of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) for military, public safety and commercial operators, has announced that it has entered into a technology partnership with TrellisWare Technologies, Inc., a developer of wireless communications solutions and signal processing innovations. The two firms will work together to integrate TrellisWare TSM mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) radio technology into Aeryon’s SkyRanger sUAS. Continue reading
Swarm of 50 Drones
A team at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, has succeeded in launching 50 drones that were all controlled by a single person. “To our knowledge, this is a world record for the number of UAVs under single operator control, by quite a long way,” says project lead Kevin Jones. Continue reading
US Air Force Special Operations Command wants Expendable, Tube-Launched UAS
US Air Force Special Operations Command wants an expendable, tube-launched small unmanned aerial vehicle for its AC-130 “battleplane” for peering beneath cloud cover to direct gunfire and precision-guided munitions.
Counter-UAV System from Airbus Defence and Space
Airbus Defence and Space has developed a Counter-UAV System which detects illicit intrusions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over critical areas at long ranges and offers electronic countermeasures minimising the risk of collateral damage. Continue reading
UK Awards Lockheed Martin Desert Hawk 3 Contract
The U.K. Ministry of Defence has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to support the Desert Hawk 3 programme and establish the small unmanned aerial system (UAS) as a Core Defence Capability. Continue reading