Britain and France have extended cooperation on UAS technology to an unmanned replacement for fighter aircraft, Peter Luff, the U.K. defence-procurement minister, said on Wednesday at a military trade fair in London. Continue reading
Information Overload
Photo: US Air Force
UAS already beam thousands of hours of video to intelligence analysts manning multiple screens and send information directly to soldiers in the field. This dramatic growth is leading to information overload.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Completes Initial Testing Of New UAS Open Payload Architecture
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced that it has completed initial testing of a new UAS open payload architecture in its Poway, California, System Integration Lab (SIL). Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Celebrates 60 Years at its Marietta Factory
Lockheed Martin just released this video celebrating 60 years of production at its Plant at Marietta, near Atlanta, Georgia.
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SELEX Galileo Launches skyISTAR, an ISTAR Architecture for UAS
SELEX Galileo has launched skyISTAR, an ISTAR architecture for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). skyISTAR will be open, flexible and platform/payload agnostic, making it adaptable to an unlimited number of potential user requirements. Continue reading
Swiss Air Force UAS Crashes at Military Airfield
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The crash occurred at 9.20 am on Tuesday morning. Due to an engine problem on takeoff, the aircraft failed to gain height, according to Jürg Nussbaum, chief of Air Force communications. Continue reading
US Customs and Border Protection Predators Spot Wildfires
Customs & Border Protection Predator B Ground Control Station - Photo: Brian Bennett/Los Angeles Times/MCT
In mid-June, as the largest wildfire in Arizona history raged, US Customs and Border Protection Officer David Gasho sent one of the Predator Bs over residential neighbourhoods in search of rogue brush fires. Continue reading
Progress Report at UK ASTRAEA National Conference
The aerospace industry’s Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment (ASTRAEA) programme is about to test wireless communication system designed to allow a UAS to securely send video footage and other information to its ground-based operator at the highest possible speed, even when it is out of direct range, and is also developing a device for sensing and avoiding aircraft in commercial airspace that is also undergoing testing. Continue reading