Pratt & Whitney‘s F100-PW-220U engine and exhaust system have successfully powered the first flight of the second Northrop Grumman X-47B flight test aircraft. Continue reading
Insitu Gets US Navy $12M ScanEagle Service Contract
Insitu Inc. is being awarded an $11,994,145 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0061) to exercise an option for operational and maintenance services in support of the ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Continue reading
Schiebel Camcopter Completes Successful Flight Trials on French Navy OPV
Schiebel‘s CAMCOPTER S-100 successfully completed a series of flights and trials onboard the new Gowind class OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel), L’ADROIT at the beginning of November, under the command and control of the French Navy. Continue reading
Rheinmetall Laser Demonstration Destroys Unmanned Aircraft
At a live fire laser demo at the Rheinmetall’s Ochsenboden proving ground in Switzerland recently, international guests were able to view two laser weapon demonstrators in action, each featuring different performance parameters. Continue reading
Dassault Fights Back
86 year old French industrialist Serge Dassault attacked a parliamentary move to buy unmanned military aircraft from the United States, saying it would cost jobs and stifle France’s arms industry. Continue reading
ROVER More Popular than iPad with the US Army
For the last two years, one of the most popular electronic gadgets in Afghanistan was not the iPad or satellite phone, but Rover 5, otherwise known as the fifth generation ROVER (Remote Operations Video Enhanced Receiver). Continue reading
Review of Some Non-American UAS by Wired
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The US Military has gone from having just a few unmanned aircraft at the outset of the Iraq War to now over 7,000. Continue reading
SDS to Deliver MQ-9 Reaper Simulator to 1st AF/AFNORTH
SDS International has been awarded a contract to deliver a ROVATTS-based MQ-9 Reaper Mission Training Device (MTD) to support Air National Guard Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) activities at 1st AF/AFNORTH, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Continue reading