This video was filmed on Saturday shows a great view of the massive gathering in Kiev’s Independence Square. Some 200,000 people have rallied in the Ukrainian capital Kiev to protest against President Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign a landmark EU deal. Continue reading
UVS International Announces 2014 Board of Directors
The association’s General Assembly for 2013 took place at the Royal Military Academy, in Brussels, Belgium on 11 December 2013 and consensually elected UVS International’s Board of Directors (BoD) for 2014. The BoD is now structured as follows: Continue reading
Heron Crashes in Coconut Grove in India
A Heron unmanned aircraft system (UAS) of the Indian Naval Air Station (INS) Parundu crashed into a coconut grove at Usilankattuvalasai in Ramanathapuram district, in Tamil Nadu, close to a residential area, while returning to base after completing its routine surveillance operation on Friday. Continue reading
US Army Vehicle-Mounted Laser Successfully Demonstrated Against UAS and Other Targets
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command for the first time used a vehicle mounted high energy laser to successfully engage more than 90 mortar rounds and several unmanned aircraft systems in flight. Continue reading
Android Smartphone Used to Create SmartCopter – Low-Cost Autonomous UAS
Researchers are using a smartphone as the brains behind a small, inexpensive UAS – the phone enables it to find its way around enclosed indoor spaces without using GPS or a remote guide. Although it’s still at an early stage, the so-called SmartCopter could eventually make it safer and cheaper to scout out disaster scenes before human responders plunge in. Continue reading
Hungary Wants EU Funds for Anti-Cigarette Smuggling Surveillance UAS
The Hungarian government is hoping to harness EU funds to operate a fleet of unmanned aircraft systems capable of policing the country’s skies. Continue reading
General Atomics Successfully Flight Tests Sense and Avoid Functions on Predator B
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced the completion of the first of several planned flight tests of a Sense and Avoid (SAA) architecture and Self Separation functionality. This marks the first time the system has functioned as a true “system of systems” to detect every class of aircraft equipage and paves the way for a Due Regard capability. Continue reading
Poland Budgets $975M to Boost UAS Programme
As early as next year, Warsaw could select a supplier for a tactical Army UAS, part of Poland’s push to boost domestic industry and military capability in unmanned aircraft systems, a Polish Army officer said. Continue reading