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Officials with the 49th Wing said last Thursday that a remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper sustained damage during landing at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, at approximately 1 p.m. The aircraft is assigned to the 29th Attack Squadron, which is a Remotely Piloted Aircraft Flying Training Unit. The accident
Testing
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. The HART system autonomously manages a mix of manned and unmanned aircraft and sensors and
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Three unmanned helicopters were shipped to Japan on a special Nippon Airways flight from France yesterday to monitor the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The €40,000 order was received by Hélipse’s American partner, Rotomotion, from General Electric, mandated by the Japanese. Company founder Laurent Grenier
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Life goes on for TAO Transa t mospheric Operations GmbH in Stuttgart after its recent split with Sanswire. The company retains all of its rights in its stratospheric airship project SkyDragon and is now looking for new investment partners. SkyDragon will be capable of unmanned and autonomous flight for an
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SightLine Applications LLC has announced a new product, the SLA-2000, which adds multi-channel capability to their product line of real-time, on-board video stabilization, object tracking, and image enhancement systems for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications. The multi-channel aspect enables new features, such as Electro-Optical (EO) and Infrared (IR) Image
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Two local police departments in South Carolina recently unveiled the latest additions to their arsenal of law enforcement tools -- remote controlled mini helicopters. The helicopters were custom built by officers from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department and the Columbia Police Department, and will be used by both. Deputy
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A novel test aircraft of the Munich Technical University (Technische Universitaet Muenchen) successfully completed its maiden flight on Wednesday at the airfield of the MFC Red Baron near Heimstetten. The micro aircraft, christened "IMPULLS" (Innovative Modular Payload UAV – TUM LLS), will facilitate testing aviation sensors and systems. It
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The Applied Technology Institute (ATI) in Washington D.C. has announced its new one-day short course on Unmanned Aircraft Systems for beginners. The course teaches participants to recognize the different classes and types of UAS, how to optimize their specific applications, how to evaluate and compare UAS capabilities, and how
Data Links & Communications
Three naval entities collaborated to adapt a small radio receiver intended for space applications into a full-featured radio frequency system for a Marine Corps UAS. The Software Reprogrammable Payload (SRP), a joint effort between the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Research Laboratory and Marine Corps aviation, is currently targeted
Events
CAE recently demonstrated its UAS mission training solutions at the biennial Aero India show in Bangalore. India’s Army, Navy and Air Force are all expected to significantly increase their use of unmanned aerial systems, and the three services are currently conducting trials to evaluate potential UAS training systems. CAE
Control Stations & Remote Video Terminals
BAE Systems Unmanned Aircraft Programs Inc. filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for an experimental license to develop radio link equipment used in UAS operated by military branches for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) applications. Stark Aerospace filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for an experimental