With much of Australia looking like reverting to a dry bushfire-prone weather pattern avionics engineers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are pulling out all stops to develop the technology to enable remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) to become airborne. Continue reading
Global Hawk Maintenance At Beale
This video just posted on YouTube shows RQ-4 Global Hawk maintenance routines. Continue reading
MicroStrain’s New Sensing Solution for Remote Environmental Monitoring
MicroStrain has introduced ENV-Link -Mini, which simplifies and streamlines remote environmental monitoring, alerting & reporting. Continue reading
Iran to Fit Missiles to UAS
Iran’s security forces are mounting missiles on it’s independently produced long-range UAS, a top Iranian official said on Sunday, adding that Iran managed to obtain technical information from the RQ-170that was captured by the Islamic Republic late last year. Continue reading
US Flew Global Hawk Missions from Australia until 2006
Global Hawk touching down at RAAF Edinburgh in February 2006
The United States flew highly classified Global Hawk surveillance missions from the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh in South Australia from late 2001 until at least 2006. Continue reading
Canada – Alberta Plans UAS Test Centre
High-tech robots being developed by a group of scientists near Medicine Hat, Alberta, could soon be used to detect leaks in pipelines or avalanches in the mountains. Continue reading
Science Applications International Corporation Gets $35M US Air Force Ground Control Support Contract
Science Applications International Corporation announced it was awarded a prime contract by the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) to provide Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Ground Control Station (GCS) and Combined Operations Center (Combined Ops Ctr) support. Continue reading
Canadian Frigate’s Farewell to ScanEagle After 7 Month Deployment
In late August, HMCS Charlottetown wraps up a seven-month deployment and bids farewell to the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft detachment that shared the flight deck with Osprey, the Halifax-class frigate’s CH-124 Sea King helicopter. Continue reading