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Tech. Sgt. Jeffery Fay from the 30th Security Forces Squadron Inspects a Raven at Vandenberg Air Force Base - Photo:Jennifer Green-Lanchoney, US Air Force
Before the launch of a top-secret spy satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, a fleet of small unmanned aircraft will be doing some spying of their own. Continue reading
This video, uploaded on March 24, 2012, shows the made-in-Iran UAS, known as “Pahpad”, taking off and operating from Hamah airbase in the city of Hama, in the West of Syria, north of Damascus. Continue reading
The US Navy is sending out an urgent request to industry for weapons-grade thermal batteries to power a new generation of the Spike missile from Rafael Advanced Defense Systems which naval designers are adapting to unmanned aircraft such as the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper and the Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. Continue reading
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has unveiled a comprehensive and high-quality mission trainer – the UMT UAS Mission Trainer. Continue reading
India’s state-run Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) has announced that the debut flight test of indigenously developed UAS Rustom-2 would take place in February 2014.
Israel Aerospace Industries has doubled the endurance of its BirdEye-650 unmanned aircraft system to 6 hours through the use of a fuel cell power pack. Continue reading
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center flew its Ikhana MQ-9 unmanned aircraft with an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B, device, for the first time on March 15. Continue reading
Australia’s Cocos Islands territory could be used as a staging point for flights by United States unmanned surveillance aircraft over the South China Sea. Continue reading