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Pratt & Whitney’s F100-PW-220U engine and exhaust system recently powered the first ever carrier-based catapult launch, touch and go, and arrested landing of Northrop Grumman’s X-47B flight test aircraft for the U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D) programme. Continue reading
A US military Reaper crashed in Mali in April as it was carrying out a surveillance flight over the troubled west African nation, a US defence official said last Friday. Continue reading
Merrick & Company’s GeoSpatial Solutions (GSS) group has announced that it has purchased an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to support surveying and mapping data collection projects in Mexico and Latin America. Continue reading
Navmar Applied Sciences is being awarded a $11,207,449 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract to exercise an option for the procurement of hardware in support of the persistent surveillance unmanned aircraft system (PSUAS) for the U.S. Army. Continue reading
A malfunction during the Navy’s high-profile test flight of its X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System showed that the aircraft can operate in adverse conditions, service officials said. Continue reading
Precision sensor manufacturer Micro-Epsilon UK Ltd. has launched a lightweight thermal imaging camera that can be easily mounted to a variety of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – including micro-UAS and multicopters – to carry out thermographic surveys and defect analysis of photovoltaic cells (solar panels), wind turbines, buildings and other difficult-to-access structures. Continue reading
German media just published this secret video showing a runaway Heron [shot from the aircraft’s onboard camera] at Mazar-e-Sharif base in North Afghanistan ramming into a Transall C-160 Transport plane. Continue reading
An Israeli Hermes 450 unmanned aircraft system crashed on Sunday evening near the border with Egypt, due to a technical difficulty.