In a move that demonstrates that UAS, facial recognition technology, and cellphone snooping are starting to affect the broader culture, the New York-based artist Adam Harvey has designed a line of high-tech garments made with sophisticated fabrics that can block signals and thwart cameras. Continue reading
UVision Introduces Updated HERO UAS Family
UVision has rolled out modernized versions of the HERO-30 expendable reconnaissance UAS, and the HERO-400 Loitering Attack Munition, responding to market demand. Through the recent modernization the systems received upgrade in the propulsion, power generation, avionics and datalinks systems, as well as improved payloads. Continue reading
AeroVironment Sales Stall as US Defence Spending Dries Up
In the last decade, AeroVironment became the Pentagon’s top supplier of small UAS. Its financial balance sheet prospered, its unmanned systems delivered results and its technology landed on the cover of Time magazine as one of the year’s best inventions in 2011. Continue reading
Kratos Unmanned Systems Solutions Division Gets $11.5M in Specialty Product Orders for UAS and Other Programmes
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its Unmanned Systems Solutions Division (KUSS) has recently received $11.5 million in specialty product orders related to certain Unmanned Aircraft System and other programmes. Continue reading
US Army to Evaluate Two Black Hornet Nanocopters
Black Hornet – Photo: Prox Dynamics
The US Army wants to buy two pocket-sized unmanned aircraft systems with miniature cameras to experiment with in advance of a capability demonstration of nano UAS for small units, according to a service spokesman. Continue reading
US Navy’s MQ-8B Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter Completes 600 Flight Hours
The U.S. Navy’s MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter surpassed another milestone in March when the MQ-8B Fire Scout helicopter completed its 600th deployed flight hour while embarked on USS Robert G. Bradley (FFG 49). Continue reading
Robotics for Risky Environments – Extreme Robotics
The International Advanced Robotics Programme (IARP) RISE-ER’2013, the 7th international workshop on robotics for risky environments, will take place within the framework of the 6th St.-Petersburg International Innovation Forum in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Fed. on 1-3 October 2013. Continue reading
RAF Reaper Pilots Earn Their Wings in USA
Four RAF pilots who have trained to fly UAS have been awarded a special pilot’s badge at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada in America. Continue reading