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The Managing Director of the company that built the aircraft, Ehsan Rahmanian, said: “The aircraft enjoys a high potentiality and can carry out various military and non-military missions including patrolling, reconnaissance and monitoring woods and pastures.” Continue reading
TiaLinx, Inc. announced the release of its software-defined multi-function radar sensor implemented in its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) platform.
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Multi Sensor Detect Sense and Avoid (MSDSA) programme successfully completed its first airborne demonstration using a prototype, x-band radar sensor. Continue reading
On 16 November 2011, the European Commission UAS Panel’s 4th Workshop took place in the Europa meeting room at EUROCONTROL headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Continue reading
Photo: Jamie Chung for TIME
AeroVironment’s Hummingbird – a surveillance prototype for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – made the front cover of The Invention issue of TIME, which appears on November 28 and which features 50 new inventions. Continue reading
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced its successful participation in a U.S. Air Force exercise designed to demonstrate the capability of an aerostat equipped with maritime radar and an Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensor to provide situational awareness for littoral environments. Continue reading
The video above showing a civilian operated unmanned helicopter filming riots in Warsaw, Poland recently is a great example of the democratisation of what was until very recently, military-grade technology. Continue reading
Queensland University of Technology has just published this thesis by Shane Degen B. Eng. (Hons) QUT at the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, Faculty of Built Environment & Engineering, as part of his Masters Degree. Continue reading