Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced that its Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEI) subsidiary has received a $6.3 million single award baseline contract from the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) for the supply of unmanned aerial targets and associated hardware. Continue reading
Airship Programmes – Not So Buoyant, Says US Government Accountability Office
ISIS (Concept: Lockheed Martin
(Bad) timing is everything in aerospace. At the height of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, airships looked to be the answer to demands for persistent, “staring-eye” surveillance. Continue reading
First JARUS Information and Dissemination Workshop
The first JARUS Information and Dissemination Workshop will take place on 6 December 2012 and will be kindly hosted by EUROCONTROL at their offices at 96 rue de la Fusée, Brussels, Belgium. Continue reading
LiquidPiston 40-BHP Rotary Engine Delivers 75% Thermal Efficiency
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has had a remarkably successful century and a half. Unfortunately, it’s notoriously inefficient, wasting anywhere from 30 to 99 percent of the energy it produces and spewing unburned fuel into the air. Continue reading
CloakBlade Stealth Octo-Rotor ‘Reaches Out’ to Enemy Ships
The US Navy Warfare Development Command’s Navy Center for Innovation recently demonstrated John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s Cloak Blade Micro-Copter. Continue reading
IAI Heron Demonstrates Maritime Credentials
In this video, the Heron demonstrates its maritime credentials. Continue reading
TECOM Gets $12M Contract from AAI for Portable Ground Control Stations
TECOM Industries, Inc. a Smiths Interconnect business, announced the award of a firm fixed price contract from AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems for approximately $12.0M. Continue reading
New Miniature Autopilot Solution from Instrument Control Sweden
After a long period of development, Instrument Control, Sweden, has announced that its brand new NATO STANAG 4586 compliant autopilot, EasyPilot 3.0, is now available. Continue reading