Regulations
Beijing adopted sweeping revisions to its decades-old Civil Aviation Law on Saturday, formally bringing uncrewed aircraft such as drones under the national legal framework for the first time and signaling state support for the country’s rapidly growing low-altitude economy.
Military
The U.S. Air Force will stand up a new unit to shape how the service fights with low-cost, one-way attack drones.
Military
The German Navy will receive four Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Systems from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) for maritime long-range reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare.
News
ING Robotic Aviation claims to be the first UAV company in the world to perform routine persistent Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) commercial services operating from of a major international airport.
Business
BlueBird has won a contract to supply a target variant of an unmanned air vehicle to the Israeli Air Force (IAF), to enable it to train its air defence units.
News
The Philippine military is considering using US military UAS to search for kidnapped Australian adventurer Warren Rodwell, who is being held by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group. Officials say the aircraftwould make it easier for ground troops to locate members of the al-Qaeda-linked group who have demanded a ransom for
Applications & Testing & Experience
In 1980, Abraham Karem, an engineer who had emigrated from Israel, retreated into his three-car garage in Hacienda Heights outside Los Angeles and, to the amusement of his tolerant wife, began to build an aircraft. The work eventually spilled into the guest room, and when Karem finished more than a
Applications & Testing & Experience
INSYS aero, supplier of avionics, control, communications and security solutions for the aerospace industry, and Röder Präzision GmbH, manufacturer of unmanned system platforms on sea and in the air, have agreed to cooperate on UAS development. Unmanned systems must perform high functionality with low weight and long operating times with
Military UAS
In the next decade, US defence spending on known medium- and large-size unmanned aircraft will be nearly $40 billion, increasing inventory by 35 percent. Ranging in size from a private aircraft to a commercial jet, nearly 800 of these bigger unmanned are operating around the world, observing, collecting data and
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On December 19, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the establishment of a 2 million square foot engineering and applied sciences university campus in the heart of New York City. The New York-based Cornell University and the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, were chosen to oversee the
US Customs and Border Protection issued a draft RFP for the purpose of acquiring a Ku Band Beyond Line of Sight Digital Datalink (BLOSDD) System. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) currently operates a fleet of manned and unmanned aircraft, including manned P-3 and DHC-8 patrol aircraft and the Predator B
Billionaire Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has launched a new company Stratolaunch Systems, that will launch payloads into space from a monster aircraft. He has revived his relationship with aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan to further his plans. Allen and Rutan first teamed up on SpaceShipOne, a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed
Major Jeff Brown, a spokesman for the 174th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard, said that in response to the new stress of around-the-clock Reaper missions, the unit has added a full-time chaplain and flight surgeon, as well as a civilian director of psychological health. Reaper pilots and sensor
Reuters ran this new report on the flocking abilities of the Swinglet MAV built by Swiss start-up Sensefly. The aircraft are programmed to "flock" like birds, according to Dario Floreano of the Swiss Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne, the leader of the team ."So what we have got
Federal law enforcement authorities are rapidly expanding a military-style unmanned aerial reconnaissance operation along the US-Mexico border. Fans of the Predators say the $20 million aircraft are a perfect platform to keep a watchful eye on America’s rugged borders, but critics say the drones are expensive, invasive and finicky
The US Army is using a hybrid-type acquisition approach to develop a helicopter-like, Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing Unmanned Aircraft System with a so-called ARGUS wide-area surveillance sensor suite designed to beam back information and images of the surrounding terrain, service officials said. Beginning in May or June of 2012, the Army will deploy
Raven Industries Aerostar aided the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Vehicle Research Section on achieving successful unmanned aircraft flight tests for the Autonomous Deployment Demonstration (ADD) programme. "The ADD balloon support operation is very simple and well developed," said Mike Smith, Senior Aerospace Engineer at Aerostar International. "The
After nearly 16 years of development and more than $5 billion spent, culminating in a series of ballistic missile target engagements, the Pentagon has finally decided to mothball the Boeing-led 747-400F project known as the Airborne Laser. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is now looking toward a new generation
Northrop Grumman's X-47B unmanned combat air system has been delivered to the US Navy following a year of testing. The US Naval Air Systems Command said the aircraft -- the first fixed-wing unmanned aircraft system designed for use from an aircraft carrier -- was tested at Edwards Air
The U.S. Navy plans to launch AeroVironment's Switchblade small, expendable unmanned aircraft from a submerged submarine during the RIMPAC 2012 naval exercise in the Pacific. A contract has been awarded to Raytheon, which has developed the submerged launch vehicle (SLV) that allows the UAS to be deployed
Doubts that Iran managed to bring down an advanced American UAS last month using an advanced GPS spoofing attack have been raised by experts, who say that attacks of this type would be extremely tough to pull off. RQ-170 Sentinel stealth capabilities should have prevented the Iranians from spotting it
