The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator completes its first shore-based arrested landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. on May 4. Continue reading
Singular Aircraft Reveals Details of Ground Control Station
The Singular Aircraft SA-03 is controlled by a remote station on land, a “Ground Station”. The Ground Station, can be fixed or hosted from a mobile vehicle which moves the system where needed. Continue reading
India Evaluates UAS for Maritime Missions
The efficacy of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) as an early warning mechanism against enemy sneaking in aboard hijacked or rogue vessels was demonstrated during Exercise Gemini-2, the second edition of integrated coastal defence drill for Kerala and Lakshadweep in India. Continue reading
Hood Tech’s Gyro-Stabilised Imaging Systems for UAS
HoodTech Vision, a manufacturer of low size, weight and power (SWaP) stabilised imaging systems for small manned and unmanned systems, will showcase two advanced gyro-stabilised systems at the Defense, Security + Sensing 2013 show last week at the Baltimore Convention Centre in Baltimore, Maryland (US). Continue reading
Boeing X-51A WaveRider Hits Mach 5.1 on 4th Flight
WaveRider unmanned hypersonic vehicle achieved the longest air-breathing, scramjet-powered hypersonic flight in history May 1, flying for three and a half minutes on scramjet power at a top speed of Mach 5.1. Continue reading
Robotic Insects Make First Controlled Flight
In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, and then sped along a preset route through the air. Continue reading
US Navy’s First Squadron of Manned & Unmanned Aircraft
The Navy’s Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35 last week became the first composite expeditionary helicopter squadron to include both manned and unmanned aircraft. HSM-35 will operate both the manned, multi-mission MH-60R Seahawk and the MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
Insect-Eye Camera Offers Wide-Angle Vision for Nano UAS
New “insect eye” cameras could someday help small UAS to see into every corner of a battlefield or give tiny medical scopes an all-around view inside the human body. A team of researchers from the United States has constructed such a camera, which offers an almost 180-degree field of view using hundreds of tiny lenses. Continue reading