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Elbit Systems has expanded its portfolio of payloads with the recent launch of a Hermes 450 and Hermes 900 UAS hyper-spectral payload with new intelligence capabilities. Continue reading
Increased use of unmanned aircraft is driving demand for smaller precision-attack weapons. Continue reading
Advanced Defense Technologies, Inc. announced that the Company is designing the sensors, signals intelligence (SIGINT), detection, and communication systems for unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading
The airframes expected to carry the Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) are conventional-signature unmanned aircraft systems and will be followed by stealthy unmanned designs. Continue reading
Discovery Channel attended a first test by Microflown AVISA, and the MicroAerialVehicle Lab from TU Delft, conducted at Vredepeel airbase.
A Skywalker unmanned aircraft was equipped with both a fish eye camera and an Acoustic Vector Sensor. Continue reading
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) experts in the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia, have awarded their third industry contract for a programme that seeks to develop technologies to help detect enemy submarines in shallow coastal waters and harbours without using traditional acoustic submarine-hunting technologies like sonar. Continue reading
U.S. Navy electro-optics scientists are asking industry for help in developing small and relatively inexpensive optical focal plane arrays (FPAs) for small systems such as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) by optimizing the imagery from these systems to meet today’s detection, tracking and identification requirements. Continue reading
U.S. Navy leaders needed an electronics contract manufacturing specialist to build signal data processor-Sierra (SDP-S) systems for the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) programme, which blends radar information from several different Navy systems to create one common air defense tactical display, or “air picture,” which is based on all sensor data available. Continue reading