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In their effort to become more efficient the Belize Fisheries Department is now employing high-tech UAS to help with maritime enforcement. The media was invited to the unveiling of these state of the art aircraft which will now be their eyes over the water. It might look like just a remote controlled plane, but this sophisticated new toy for the Fisheries Department is a UAS. Continue reading
Several hundred Air National Guard members were in attendance Saturday for the 188th Conversion Day. After serving an evolving series of aircraft for more than 60 years, the 188th Maintenance Group, which included about 350 of the wing’s approximately 1,000 military and civilian members, was inactivated. Moments later, the 188th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group came alive.
Prison yards have spotlights and surveillance towers and barbed wire fences and security cameras to keep prisoners in—and soon, they might have UAS too. Corrections officials in Ohio are looking into using UAS to persistently monitor prison grounds in the state.
For the second year in a row, the U.S. Air Force awarded the prestigious Dr. James G. Roche Sustainment Excellence Award for superior performance in aircraft maintenance and logistics readiness to the U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk high altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft programme produced by Northrop Grumman Corporation .
The ADS 95 Ranger reconnaissance unmanned aircraft system, which the Swiss Armed Forces have been operating since 2001, will be replaced by 2020. The choice of the new model provides the basis for the dispatch on procurement. Continue reading
Schiebel‘s dedication to the maritime domain and its ability to respond to the evolving unmanned systems requirements lead to a series of trials for the Brazilian Navy from 2nd to 5th June near San Pedro, Brazil, from the Brazilian Amazonas Class Ship APA.
Northrop Grumman just release this video of its Seabat UAS. Continue reading
senseFly, a company that develops, assembles and markets autonomous mini-UAS, is using Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablets for humanitarian missions. Continue reading