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A former contract worker for Insitu pleaded not guilty in Federal Court last week to stealing a maintenance manual for top-secret UAS technology. Stephen Marty Ward of Palmyra, Ind., is accused of duplicating or downloading the manual for an Insitu Inc. UAS while working as a technical writer, then offering
Military UAS
A new Pentagon study shows that almost 30 percent of UAS pilots surveyed suffer from what the military calls "burnout." It's the first time the military has tried to measure the psychological impact of waging a "remote-controlled war." Around 1,100 Air Force pilots
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Iran's Minister of Defence, Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says that the country is manufacturing new models of unmanned combat aircraft. “We have had advanced capabilities in terms of unmanned aircraft; with regard to combat drones we have had a number of models, and we also have some models
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US Air Forces Central Command just posted this video taken from a MQ-1 Predator of the last convoys crossing the border out of Iraq December 17, 2011, at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. US Air Forces Central Command provided more than 14 Air Force and US Navy aircraft
Military UAS
The US military’s deployment of MQ-9 Reaper UAS to the Seychelles, a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean, generated $3.1 million in revenue for local businesses during their first four months of operations, according to an unclassified US diplomatic cable buried in the database of State Department cables
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Russia’s Ridus News Agency recently published an impressive series of hexacopter aerial shots of the demonstrations in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square on December 10th. Onlookers may have thought it was the police monitoring the security situation on the scene of mass protests, but in fact the UAS camera was
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Gatewing, manufacturer of the X100 unmanned aircraft system for mapping and surveying, introduces Gatewing Stretchout, a new image processing solution which automatically converts X100 image data to accurate orthophotos and DSMs. “With Gatewing Stretchout we've challenged the accepted way of traditional photogrammetry by introducing highly advanced vision technology
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Algerian media report that the US and France have jointly established a secret unmanned aircraft base in the Libyan Desert, near the area of Katroune. Aircraft from the secret base are allegedly flying missions to Niger, Mali and Mauritania, with the declared objective of seeking out Saharan arms trafficking networks
Military UAS
A Google Maps satellite image of an isolated airstrip in Nevada shows a secret but operational unmanned aircraft test facility. The Yucca Lake Airfield, deep inside the heavily restricted Tonopah Test Range, is on land owned by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a division of the Department of Energy
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Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said. Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000-acre spread in
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This new video from the TAAC Conference features an interview with NMSU’s Stephen Hottman and some in-flight footage taken during the flight demonstrations. New Mexico State University’s Physical Science Laboratory hosted its 13th annual UAS TAAC (Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technical Analysis and Applications Center) Conference last week at
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A former senior Pentagon official with extensive knowledge of unmanned aircraft expressed great scepticism of the aircraft supposed to be a stealth RQ-170 shown on Iranian television. AOL Defense asked one of Washington's most experienced UAS experts to have a look at the Iranian TV footage. The so-called