Category Archives: UAV
AeroVironment, Textron Advance Lethal Mini-UASs
By Graham Warwick Source: Aerospace Daily & Defense Report May 25 , 2012 Textron Defense Systems has demonstrated refinements to its BattleHawk squad-level loitering munition with flights of the lethal unmanned aircraft for the U.S. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force at Socorro, N.M. BattleHawk is a tube-launched, warhead-equipped small expendable UAS unveiled by Textron last year as [...]
U.S. military seeking non-lethal UAVs
Published 30 April 2012 More Sharing ServicesShare|Share on emailShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on linkedin The U.S. Army is seeking non-lethal warheads to be deployed on tiny UAVs; the U.S. Army describes the possible uses of the non-lethal UAV: “Potential commercial applications might include, but are not limited to: crowd control for local law enforcement; border protection for Homeland Security; [...]
Analyst: Worldwide UAV Market Will Total $89 Billion In 10 Years
Teal Group Releases 2012 UAV Market Profile And Forecast Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continue as the most dynamic growth sector of the world aerospace industry this decade, report Teal analysts in their latest integrated market analysis. Teal Group’s 2012 market study estimates that UAV spending will almost double over the next decade from current worldwide [...]
India to build a hunter-killer UAV fleet; UAVs will come from Israel
Published 9 April 2010 Share| India is set to augment its fleet of reconnaissance UAVs with killer-hunter UAVs; the Indian military has been impressed with the effectiveness of the UAV campaign against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and wants to adopt the same approach to India’s problem with Muslim terrorists; Israel, which sold India [...]
Dream Jobs 2012: Building a Hybrid-Electric, Unmanned Heliplane
The leader of Aerovel’s avionics design team, John Stafford, gravitates to small, informal companies By DAVID SCHNEIDER / FEBRUARY 2012 Photo: Brian Smale When John Stafford was growing up in Altoona, Pa., in the 1960s, a family friend invited him to help fix up a 1957 MG convertible. Stafford threw himself into the project, assembling a complete wiring [...]
U.S. deploys the Switchblade Kamikaze Drone
By Mike Hanlon U.S. deploys the Switchblade Kamikaze Drone U.S.Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are beginning initial deployment of the Switchblade unmanned aerial system (UAS). A product of AeroVironment, the aircraft is light enough to be man-packable, simple enough to be deployed in minutes and can fly off over the horizon sending back video. [...]
Northrop Grumman Awarded Unmanned Aircraft System Common Architecture Working Group Contract. Supports the Standardization of Unmanned Aircraft System Control Segment Common Architecture Development
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 9, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) a $3.3 million contract to participate in the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Control Segment (UCS) Architecture Working Group (UCSWG). Sponsored by the Unmanned Warfare Office of the Office Secretary of Defense (OSD), the UCSWG will provide increased [...]
Video: International Micro Aerial Vehicle Competition Highlights
The International Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference/Competition took place back in September, and unfortunately, we couldn’t make it because we weren’t sure how to pronounce the name of the place in which it was being held: ‘t Harde, in the Netherlands. While IMAV had plenty of papers and talks and stuff, the most exciting bits were [...]
S. Korea Pursues Stealth Drone Demonstrator
When you have a mountain to climb, it makes sense to get an early start. With that in mind, South Korea is moving rapidly into the demonstrator phase for a stealthy combat drone that it does not expect to field until late in the next decade. Probably deciding that they would have trouble leaping into [...]
