Israel plans to use unmanned aircraft that it deployed in Azerbaijan to preemptively strike Iranian missile sites in the event of a war, the London-based Sunday Times reported. Continue reading
Earth at Night – Viewed by NASA
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In daylight our big blue marble is all land, oceans and clouds. But the night – is electric. Continue reading
Aurora Delivers First Centaur Optionally-Piloted Aircraft to Swiss Department of Defence
Aurora Flight Sciences announced that it delivered the world’s first production Optionally-Piloted Aircraft (OPA) system to Switzerland’s Department of Defence. Continue reading
First Unmanned Aircraft from 1919
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This old Warner Pathe Newsreel about ‘missiles’ compares the first attempts at launching an unmanned aircraft in 1919 with air-to air and aground-to-air missiles of the early 1950’s… Continue reading
Iran Claims to have Downed ScanEagle
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Iran claimed on Tuesday it had taken another prize in a growing showdown with Washington over UAS surveillance, displaying a purported U.S. unmanned aircraft it said was captured intact. Continue reading
Williams Aerospace Builds Civil UAS in Hawaii
The military is a major user of unmanned aircraft, but Jeff Williams says it’s the civilian market that will “explode” with new products and applications in the next few years when federal regulations are rewritten.
Pakistan’s Domestic UAS
Raja Sabri Khan, a Pakistani aerospace design engineer, who has built UAS for two decades, says that his country’s government doesn’t have the money to make unmanned combat aircraft yet.
Spectral Exploitation Offers Enhanced ISR Functionality for High Altitude Platform
Headwall Photonics announced that its Hyperspec sensor has been chosen by UTC Aerospace Systems (formerly Goodrich Corporation) for the Senior Year Electro-Optical Reconnaissance Sensor (SYERS-2) platform.