Production Of The Russian Korsar UAVs Will Start In 2017

Serial production of the Russian Korsar (Corsair) surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will start in 2017, a manufacturing firm United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC) spokesperson told Sputnik on Thursday.The spokesperson added that in the long term the Korsar UAV family ...

DX Korea 2016: KARI unveils TR60 tiltrotor UAV

Daejeon-based Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has unveiled the production-ready TR60 tactical tiltrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at the 2016 DX Korea land warfare exhibition being held at the KINTEX convention centre in Goyang city, South Korea.According to specifications ...

US Navy Demonstrates Cross-Domain Communications, Command and Control via AeroVironment Blackwing Submarine-Launched UAV

AeroVironment, Inc., a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems for both military and commercial applications, today announced the United States Navy has successfully demonstrated the use of its submarine-launched BlackwingTMUAV to link with a swarm of unmanned undersea vehicles and communicate ...

Certifiable Predator B Successfully Completes Aircraft Integration

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems solutions, today announced that aircraft integration of its new Certifiable Predator® B (CPB) RPA system has been ...

AeroVironment Teams with Australia-based XTEK, Sentient Vision and General Dynamics Mediaware to Offer Small UAS to the Australian Army and Special Forces

The AeroVironment Australia team provides complete, end-to-end system capabilities to support Australian customers The Wasp AE Micro Air Vehicle is the first of AeroVironment’s Family of Unmanned Aircraft Systems to be adopted by the Australian Armed Forces Wasp AE Micro Air Vehicle ...

USMC Aiming For Shipboard Capable And Expeditionary UAS

The US Marine Corps (USMC) is pushing ahead with a 'shipboard capable and expeditionary' unmanned aerial system (UAS) programme, and pushing back against arguments that it could instead field existing unmanned platforms.A so-called MAGTF Unmanned Expeditionary Capabilities (MUX) programme ...

GA-ASI UAS Flight Training Academy Graduates First Aircrews

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems solutions, today announced that the company’s new Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Flight Training Academy graduated its ...

Raytheon Awarded $104 Million To Modernize Ground Controls For U.S. Air Force Global Hawk

New mission control stations will enhance ISR capabilitiesRaytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a subcontract valued up to$104 million to modernize the ground segment for the U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk autonomous aircraft. Raytheon partners with Northrop Grumman as ...

DARPA Issues RFI for Counter-UAS Capabilities

DARPA has announced that it has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to explore ideas and approaches to improve protection of fixed and mobile ground and naval forces against a variety of small unmanned air systems (sUAS) threats and tactics.The rapid evolution of sUAS technologies is ...