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
Payloads
As unmanned aircraft become increasingly common, warfighters continue to press for more imagery from a broader range of high-resolution sensors, putting more pressure on those who design the systems that collect images and send them to analysts. System developers are responding by deploying different types of sensors and electronics that
Payloads
Sentient announced that its automated target detection solution – Kestrel Land MTI – will actively support the two complete Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV) systems that the Australian Army is acquiring under the Defence Capability Plan Joint Project (JP) 129 Phase 2, in their surveillance, reconnaissance and target acquisition missions. Operated by
Business News
MBDA Inc., the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of missile manufacturer MBDA, has purchased Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Viper Strike munitions business, located in Huntsville, AL. Terms of the agreement are not being disclosed. The Viper Strike purchase is MBDA Inc.’s first acquisition in the U.S. and is
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
Data Links & Communications
Harris Corporation is broadening the capabilities of its RF-7800T Situational Awareness Video Receiver (SAVR) to address growing requirements for secure wireless digital intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance video at the tactical edge. Harris has integrated the Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Digital Data Link (SUAS-DDL) waveform with the RF-7800T video receiver. With
Payloads
Researchers at the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered that although graphene makes very good chemical sensors, there was an unexpected “twist”— the sensors are better when the graphene is “worse”—more imperfections improved performance. “This is quite the opposite of what you would
Lighter Than Air
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced its successful participation in a U.S. Air Force exercise designed to demonstrate the capability of an aerostat equipped with maritime radar and an Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensor to provide situational awareness for littoral environments. “Successful integration and operation of the Lynx Multi-mode
Data Links & Communications
A move to a new standard communications band is needed because of a saturation of current bandwidth, French Air Chief of Staff Genenral Jean-Paul Palomeros said at a briefing in Dubai on November 12. Increasingly relied-upon unmanned aircraft such as Predators, Reapers and the French Harfang generate huge amounts of
Military UAS
Two different aircraft platforms that fly the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) system, developed by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, have been officially designated by the US Air Force as the E-11A and the EQ-4B. The Northrop Grumman Global Hawk RQ-4Bs modified to host the BACN system have been re-designated as
Applications & Testing & Experience
Researchers from Naval Air Systems Command, Eglin Air Force Base, and engineering company Navmar Applied Science Corporation are developing a weapons system for small unmanned aircraft. The petite, 13-foot MicroUAV Tigershark, already used for surveillance and reconnaissance, will be outfitted with an even smaller drone — developed by Air Force researchers
Payloads
At the Army’s Manned-Unmanned Systems Integration Capability (MUSIC) exercise held September 16 at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Gray Eagle UAS utilised a Triclops sensor suite to showcase an enhanced situational awareness capability. Consisting of three Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensors, the Triclops system was