Blurring the lines between gaming and reality US Air Force has released a spectacular new video game on its adventurous recruiting site. The new game invites potential recruits to ‘Fly the Reaper’
US Special Operations Gives Hummingbird to the Army
U.S. Special Operations Command will be turning over its unmanned helicopters to the Army. SOCOM will be seeking other options that better suit special operators’ needs, officials said.
Northrop Grumman HART On-Demand Intelligence System Succesful Field Tests
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully demonstrated that its Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team (HART) system increases warfighter situational awareness during a recent Spiral 7 DARPA field exercise conducted March 7-18, 2011, at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.
AAI Builds Next Generation Shadow
AAI has built a new unmanned aircraft, a substantial upgrade of the standard RQ-7 Shadow. The new aircraft, reportedly in the blended-wing configuration, is designed with two payload bays.
Northrop Grumman Picks Thinklogical High Bandwidth Router for BAMS
Northrop Grumman has contracted Thinklogical for key infrastructure systems for the U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System.
Alenia Delivers nEUROn Weapon Bay Doors to Dassault
Alenia Aeronautica, has announced that it has recently delivered the Weapon Bay Doors & Mechanism for nEUROn (the new-generation technology demonstrator for a European Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle – UCAV) to Dassault Aviation.
Xtreme Power Systems Selects RFaxis for New Atmel-Based Diversity Antenna DivBee(TM) Module to Serve ZigBee/ISM Applications
RFaxis has announced that its RFX2401 single chip/single die RF Front-End Integrated Circuit (RFeIC(TM)) for ZigBee/ISM 2.4GHz has been selected by Xtreme Power Systems (XPS) for its new DivBee(TM) Diversity Antenna ZigBee module.
Lockheed Martin Sentinel Used in Bin Laden Operation
The CIA employed unmanned aircraft to fly dozens of secret missions deep into Pakistani airspace and monitor the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, current and former U.S. officials said.