The United States risks losing its current competitive edge in the unmanned aircraft market unless Washington acts soon to ease tough restrictions on their export for commercial use, the Chief Executive of Northrop Grumman Corp said at the Aero Club of Washington on Friday. Continue reading
White House Officials Open Up on UAS Strike Decision-Making Process
CNN posted this report which features the White House Counter-Terrorism Adviser, John Brennan. Continue reading
Predator – Mixed Results on Mexican Border Patrol
Lyle Belew, Command Duty Officer in Predator Ops at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas, communicates with a Predator Pilot
The drug runners call it “el mosco,” the mosquito, and one recent evening on the southern tip of Texas, a Predator B armed with cameras buzzed softly over the beach on South Padre Island and headed inland. Continue reading
Aviation Week’s NextGen Conference Calls Sense-And-Avoid Biggest Challenge To UAS Integration
Panelists at Aviation Week’s NextGen conference identified a proven sense-and-avoid system as the biggest challenge for the coming integration of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system (NAS). Continue reading
US Army Wants Non-Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System
One part bazooka round; one part suicidal drone; one part stun round. What the U.S. Army hopes will emerge from that mix is a warhead that can loiter in midair while it hunts a human target — but won’t kill him when it finds him.
North American X-10 Test Flight
The North American X-10 (model RTV-A-5) was an unmanned technology demonstrator for advanced missile technologies during the 1950s. Continue reading
First Russian Strike UAS Test Flight in 2014
Russia will test fly its first domestically-produced strike unmanned aircraft in 2014, according to First Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Sukhorukov.
Cliff Dodging in Iceland
This scary video shows just what can be done with an amateur COTS system in the hands of a skilled pilot. Continue reading