Images of a destroyed Russian UAV resembling Turkish-made Bayraktar drones have surfaced online. The Russian drone is a rare UAV called the ‘Corsair’ or ‘Korsar’. Continue reading
AeroVironment Gets $86M US Army Puma Contract
AeroVironment Inc., Simi Valley, California, was awarded an $86,424,635 firm-fixed-price contract for the RQ-20B All Environment 3 and the Long Endurance Puma unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading
Amazon Reveals New Prime Air Delivery Drone
Amazon’s new delivery drone will have increased range, expanded temperature tolerance, and the capability to fly in light rain, enabling customers to choose drone delivery more often. Continue reading
Vertiport Testbed for European Urban Air Mobility Testing Inaugurated in Paris
Groupe ADP, Skyports and Volocopter commissioned Europe’s first fully integrated vertiport terminal for the urban air mobility (UAM) industry at the Groupe ADP, RATP Group and Choose Paris Region-run Re.Invent Air Mobility testbed at Pontoise-Cormeilles airfield. Continue reading
Bayraktar TB2 Knockoff on Display at China Airshow
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, known popularly as CETC, has unveiled its new unmanned aerial vehicle at the Zhuhai Airshow 2022 international aerospace exhibition. Continue reading
GA-ASI, SES and Hughes Team to Demonstrate NextGen SATCOM on MQ-9B SkyGuardian
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., SES and Hughes Network Systems worked together to successfully demonstrate multi-orbit satellite communications (SATCOM) using a GA-ASI-supplied MQ-9B SkyGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft. Continue reading
IAI Allowed to Fly Heron in Greek Civil Airspace
On the recommendation of EASA, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, the Greek civilian aviation authority has for the first time issued a permit allowing IAI’s Heron 1 UAV to be flown in Greece’s airspace. Continue reading
South African Forces Retrieve Crashed UN Peacekeeping Falco Evo Drone
Personnel of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has retrieved a Falco Evo unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operated by the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monusco) that crashed last week. Continue reading