Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulphur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today’s electronics. Continue reading
Rafale Aerobatics Around the Patrouille de France
This video shows the Patrouille de France, the French Air Force display team, performing some (basic) aerobatic manoeuvres with a couple of Rafale multirole fighter jets. Continue reading
UAS Delivery Company Matternet CEO Interviewed on Fox TV
Matternet Co-Founder and CEO Andreas Raptopoulos interviewed on Fox Business TV on disrupting the delivery industry with UAS. Continue reading
RPAS 2013 Brussels June 24-27 – Conference Overview Part 1
In the run up to UVS International’s RPAS 2013 Conference being held at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels on the 24th to the 27th of June, we’ll be taking a detailed look at some of the presentations planned covering the key topics. Continue reading
Mafia Experimented with Lethal UAS in the 1990s
A mafia turncoat has revealed for the first time that Sicily’s Cosa Nostra tested bomb-loaded remote controlled aircraft in the early 1990s. Continue reading
US Navy’s New, Bigger Fire Scout To Fly in Autumn
There’s a new Fire Scout in the pipeline — bigger, faster, longer legs, more muscle. It’s still being assembled and won’t fly until later this year, but it’s headed for the fleet as soon as late 2014. And it could fundamentally change some of the parameters expected of the US Navy’s seagoing unmanned helicopter programme. Continue reading
Solar-Powered OctoCopter
Ecilop Solar (Ecilop-8) is controlled as a quad-copter, 8 rotors are connected pair-wise. There is no onboard battery. To configure controllers inside a building, the user connects an external battery. To restart the controller in sunlight, the user bridges the power leads. The vehicle remains airborne because of ground effect and automatically maintains a horizontal attitude. Continue reading
Spain to Open UAs Test Centre by Year End
A new unmanned air system (UAS) testing centre with its own reserved airspace for remotely-piloted technology, the first of its kind in Spain, is expected to be operating by the end of this year. Continue reading