For once a positive story coming out of Pakistan about UAS, or ‘killer drones’ as they are normally referred to in the local press…. The NUST Science Society at the School of Chemical and Materials Engineering in Islamabad recently organised a technical talk on ‘UAS — An Overview of Various Technological Systems’ which discussed not only the technical aspects of UAS, but also emphasised the positive non-military applications.
Nostroma Defensa and Innocon Sign MoU to Develop South American Market
Nostromo Defensa, an Argentinean UAS company, and the Israeli based Innocon have signed a MoU to work together on the development of new UAS solutions for Argentinean and the South American market.
University of North Dakota Students Train on Corsair’s ScanEagle Simulator
The University of North Dakota has teamed with Corsair Engineering to provide University Students pursuing a UAS major at UND to use the ScanEagle UAS as an example platform to learn mission employment and operational techniques through the use of high-fidelity simulation.
Cassidian Makes New Funding Proposal for Talarion
Phantom Eye Arrives at NASA for Testing
Boeing’s unmanned hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye HALE demonstrator aircraft has arrived at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Centre for assembly and preparations for flight tests.
Oz Team 5 Year Project to Develop UAS Safety Evaluation Tool
The University of Newcastle, Australia and Boeing Research and Technology Australia have launched a five-year project to develop a tool to evaluate whether unmanned aircraft meet the same levels of safety as piloted aircraft for particular operations.
US Navy Issues Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) Solicitation
The US Naval Air Systems Command has posted a Broad Agency Announcement seeking proposals which conceptually demonstrate that a UCLASS system can provide a persistent Carrier Vessel-Nuclear (CVN) based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and strike capability supporting carrier air wing operations in the 2018 timeframe.
UAS to Survey India-Pakistan World Cup Cricket Match
The epic India-Pakistan cricket match World Cup semi-final which be witnessed today by the Prime Ministers of both countries in Mohali in India’s Punjab, is a source of great concern for security forces. The Times of India reported that Israeli-made UAS, also during the Commonwealth Games last year, will be used for air surveillance.