The New York Air National Guard’s 174th Fighter Wing, based at Hancock Field in Syracuse, received authorization to operate using a C-Band radio frequency from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration last week, a unit spokesman said.
Turkey To Develop Domestic UAS Industry
Explaining his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) election manifesto, PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged that Turkey’s local defence companies would manufacture indigenous “tanks, helicopters, war planes, unmanned aircraft and military satellites in the next 12 years.”
US Congressional Budget Office Publishes Policy Document for UAS
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has published detailed, unclassified plans to purchase over the next ten years about 730 new medium-sized and large unmanned aircraft systems that are designed for reconnaissance and light attack missions. CBO estimates that completing those investments would cost about $37 billion through 2020.
UAS YEARBOOK 2011/2012 Available Now !
The 9th Annual Edition of the International Unmanned Aircraft Systems Yearbook is currently at the printers and the first copies, hot off the presses, will be delivered to the UAS Conference 2011 in Paris next week. Delegates will be the first to get hard copies of what is without doubt the most respected publication on UAS in the world.
ChandlerMay Delivers 300th Tactical Ground Control Station to AAI
ChandlerMay’s UAS Division recently delivered the 300th Ground Control Station (GCS) subsystem to AAI Corporation. The division builds major subsystems for the Army’s One System Ground Control Station (OSGCS), which flies several Unmanned Air Systems, including AAI’s Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System.
Australia Evaluates UAS for Bush Fire Fighting
Australia’s National Aerial Fire-fighting Centre (NAFC) is examining the potential of UAS in supporting fire operations. “UAS technology has advanced significantly in recent years and we are keen to closely evaluate the potential application of UAS in fire support,” says the NAFC.
LWIR Hyperspectral Imager Reveals Camouflaged and Hidden objects
Spectral Imaging, Ltd., announced that it has delivered the world’s most compact, high-performance Long-Wave Infrared, LWIR Hyperspectral Imager to a Defence Customer in a strategic geographical location.
Oklahoma Develops its UAS Credentials
One of Oklahoma’s fastest-emerging industries, unmanned aircraft systems, continues its trajectory with new government partnerships and a potential new airspace and corridor for testing.