Business News
SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company, has won contracts in excess of €23 million to provide logistics support for a range of systems. These include support agreements for the Tornado aircraft, Falco Unmanned Aircraft System and a €6 million contract to provide engineering support for the upgrade of radar systems. “Logistics
News
An Iranian TV station appears to have faked dozens of accounts of US drone strikes in Somalia which it says have killed hundreds of civilians. Press TV, which was fined £100,000 by Ofcom (the UK Press Regulatory Authority) after the station hid the fact that a 2009 "interviewee&
Business News
Boosted by an increase in sales, AeroVironment Inc. exceeded analyst estimates and reported $6.6 million in second-quarter profit, a large increase over the same period a year ago. The company posted $6.6 million in net income, or 30 cents a share, on Tuesday for the quarter ended Oct.
Research
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has kicked off an initiative to develop advanced applications capable of coordinating various intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) programmes. According to DARPA programme manger Mark Rich, current sensor systems, like those being developed for DARPA's Adaptable Sensor System (ADAPT) programme, are
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Photo: NASA NASA researchers have demonstrated the use of an unmanned aircraft to collect very low altitude airborne measurements of greenhouse gases at several sites in California and Nevada. As Earth scientists strive to better understand sources and sinks of atmospheric greenhouse gases, a new aircraft capability developed at NASA
Accidents
The unmanned surveillance aircraft lost by the United States in Iran was indeed a stealth aircraft being used for secret missions by the CIA, US officials admitted on Monday. US officials told NBC that CIA operators were flying the unmanned aircraft when it suddenly veered out of control and headed
Events
Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 is the only UAS taking part in the flight displays at the LIMA (Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace) Exhibition from 6th to 10th December 2011. The CAMCOPTER S-100 unmanned helicopter was first and only UAS ever to fly at the Paris Air Show in 2009. Subsequently,
Testing
Brock Technologies has announced that its Havoc Unmanned Aircraft System undertook its first flight on 24 October 2011. Brock Technologies claim that the UAS will ‘bridge the gap between affordability and capability’. The Havoc was developed under a series of Air Force SBIR contracts. The twin boom, pusher 2-stroke engine
Testing
The Naval Research Laboratory Vehicle Research Section has successfully completed flight tests for the Autonomous Deployment Demonstration (ADD) programme. The final demonstration took place on September 1 at the Yuma Proving Grounds, Yuma, Arizona, and consisted of a series of eight balloon-drops at altitudes of up to 57,000 ft.
Data Links & Communications
Privately-owned Israeli company, IMC Microwave Industries, has developed a data link that will enable an operator to control a loitering weapon system even when it begins its dive towards a target. Until now, the company has been operating under heavy secrecy, but Flightglobal was allowed to visit the company and
Accidents
A US official said that Washington had no indication that an unmanned aircraft that had crashed in Iran had actually been shot down. In Tehran, state television quoted a military source as saying that Iran's military had shot down a US reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran. "
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
The Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication at the FRAC Cultural Centre in Orléans, France has commissioned a 3 month exhibition entitled "Flight Assembled Architecture". It runs from 01.12.2011-26.02.2012 and claims to be the first architectural installation to be built dynamically by flying machines