The twin Avro Lancaster formation display at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. Continue reading
Iran’s Sadegh UCAV Armed with Air-to-Air Missiles
During this year’s Sacred Defense Week, Iran publicly unveiled the Sadegh-1 (“Allegiant-1”) unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV). In appearance and layout, Sadegh-1 is similar to the proven, reliable Mohajer-4 (“Migrant-4”) reconnaissance UAV, suggesting manufacture by Ghods Aviation Industry. Continue reading
UAV/UGV Cooperative System
A system to allow air- and ground-based robot vehicles to work together, without GPS signals or expensive sensor devices, is being developed by a team at Yonsei University in Korea. This could be used by unmanned vehicle teams to explore environments, ranging from farms here on earth to the surfaces of other worlds.
senseFly Joins AgGateway – a Non-Profit Consortium for the Agriculture Industry
senseFly has joined AgGateway, becoming the first UAV manufacturer to join this non-profit consortium of businesses that serve the agriculture industry. As an official AgGateway member, senseFly has already joined AgGateway’s Precision Ag Council. This will allow the company to collaborate closely with other council members to help define appropriate standards, guidelines and implementation protocols, which will, in turn, improve the integration of UAV data into the precision agriculture workflow. Continue reading
MQ-1’s and MQ-9’s at Holloman AFB
Video by Airman 1st Class JaoTorey Johnson Holloman Air Force Base Public Affairs Office
MQ-1’s and MQ-9’s sitting on the flight line of Holloman AFB, Aug 20. Continue reading
Insitu Gets $11M ScanEagle Contract for Yemen
Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is being awarded $10,976,866 for firm-fixed-price delivery order 0007 against a previously issued Basic Ordering Agreement (N68335-11-G-0009) for the procurement of one ScanEagle System that consists of nine ScanEagle Electro-Optics and three ScanEagle Infra-red Unmanned Air Vehicles for the government of Yemen under the Foreign Military Sales program. Continue reading
Watchkeeper Begins Combat ISTAR Missions Over Afghanistan
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced the first operational flights in Afghanistan of Thales’s unmanned air system, Watchkeeper. This new capability is providing force protection for British troops as they prepare to draw down from Afghanistan by the end of this year. Continue reading
Aurora Gets Phase 1B Funding to Continue Development of DARPA VTOL X-Plane Programme
Aurora Flight Sciences announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the company Phase 1B funding to continue participation in the DARPA Vertical Take Off and Landing Experiment Plane (VTOL X-Plane) programme. The award is intended to carry Aurora’s participation in the project through a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) milestone in October 2015. Continue reading