Marking a key milestone in military technology, experts at the Oklahoma Training Center for Unmanned Systems (OTC-US) facilitated a successful demonstration of newly designed precision-guided mortar rounds, dropped from one of the centre’s small unmanned aircraft onto a target almost 1.5 miles below. Continue reading
BAE Systems Converted 300th F-4 Phantom into Target Drone for US Air Force
BAE Systems has successfully converted its 300th F-4 Phantom fighter jet into an unmanned flying drone for the U.S. Air Force. Continue reading
Challis Heliplane Launches New High Speed VTOL UAS
Challis Heliplane UAV Inc. has launched a new high speed VTOL UAV. The Challis Heliplane UAV E950 features patented high speed Heliplane flight technology and has almost twice the flight speed of a conventional helicopter. Continue reading
RTI Connext Micro Undergoes Certification for Flight Safety-Critical Systems
Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the real-time infrastructure software company, has announced that RTI Connext Micro is undergoing certification for flight safety-critical systems. Continue reading
Iran Unveils Hovercraft That Launches Drones & Missiles
Iran has revealed a new domestically produced hovercraft called “Thunder” that will operate in the Persian Gulf and can launch surveillance drones and missiles. Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Acquires Chandler/May, Inc.
Lockheed Martin announced the acquisition of Chandler/May, Inc., a company that specializes in the design, development, integration, manufacturing, and support of fully integrated mission critical systems for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (C4ISR) missions. Continue reading
Sukhoi to Build Strike and Reconnaissance Unmanned Aircraft
Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi is to focus on creating reconnaissance and strike unmanned aircraft in the near future, United Aircraft Corporation President Mikhail Pogosyan said at the Zhuhai Airshow China exhibition on Tuesday. Continue reading
Unmanned Aircraft System Testing at Oliktok, Alaska
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In late October 2012, a flight team from New Mexico State University, assisted by engineers from Sandia National Laboratories, completed the first in a series of test flights to evaluate various unmanned aircraft systems in the frigid Arctic conditions at the North Slope of Alaska. Continue reading