The fifth and final workshop in the five-part series of European Commission UAS Panel Workshops run jointly by the European Commission’s DG Mobility & Transport (MOVE) and DG Enterprise (ENTR) on the topic of insertion of UAS into European controlled airspace, will take place at the Royal Military Academy, 8 rue Hobbema, BE-1000 Brussels, Belgium on 9 February 2012. Continue reading
Boeing’s $70M Contract to Convert F-16s into Aerial Targets
Photo: US Air Force
When fighter jets age, their commercial and military value depreciates. They can either be consigned to the scrap heap, sold to nations with limited military budgets, placed in museums, or… get blown up in new and exciting ways. Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Adapt Parrot AR.Drone – Attempt to Film Police in New York
Thom Hartmann of RT America’s “The Big Picture” interviews Tim Pool of “Timcast-Tv” about using his “OccuCopter” to film the police in New York City as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Continue reading
Longbow Gets $181M US Army Contract for High-Bandwidth Data Link for Apache Block III
The LONGBOW Limited Liability Company, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Corporation received a $181 million contract from the U.S. Army for AH-64D Apache Block III LONGBOW systems. Continue reading
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Gets $40M Contracts from US Army
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Poway, California, was awarded a $12,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. Continue reading
Australia Rebukes Sea Shepherd for Unauthorised Use of UAS
Osprey used by Sea Shepherd
The conservation group Sea Shepherd has been told by the Australian Antarctic Division that its UAS must undergo an urgent environmental impact assessment (EIA) if they are to be used in waters covered by the Antarctic Treaty. Continue reading
US Customs and Border Protection Gets 6th Predator B
US Customs and Border Protection received its ninth unmanned aircraft late December, the fourth at National Air Security Operations Center in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Continue reading
Police in Brazil Deploy Heron for Drug Trafficking Surveillance
The Federal Police in the Parana district in Brazil have recently begun to operate a Heron-1 supplied by Israel Aerospace Industries. Continue reading