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Lockheed Martin is taking the wraps off its submission for the US Navy’s prospective unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance and strike (UCLASS) aircraft at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition in Washington DC. Continue reading
Insitu Inc. announced the successful first maritime flight of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) RQ-21A. The nearly two-hour flight launched from the USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19) after three months of land-based development testing and operational assessment. Continue reading
If the FAA keeps to its deadlines, September 30, 2015 will be the day unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are allowed enter the airspace for commercial use. And on that late autumn day, many of the first businesses to take their robots out of the box and prepare them for liftoff will be farms. Continue reading
Wildlife authorities are using unmanned aircraft to oversee a sprawling natural game park in northeastern India to protect the one-horned rhinoceros from armed poachers. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman recently received an undefinitized contract award valued at more than $71 million for its Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system from the U.S. Air Force. Continue reading
[Click on image to enlarge]Boeing is unveiling an updated version of its F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter concept at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition in Washington DC this week. Continue reading
[Click on image to enlarge]Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in collaboration with the University of Costa Rica are involved in exploration and monitoring of active volcanoes in the central mountains of Costa Rica by employing RPAS. Continue reading
AAI Logistics & Technical Services will welcome its first Australian Army trainees starting in May for Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS) operations and maintenance training. Continue reading