Monthly Round-up: May 2012

News, articles and features published in May 2012
Article | May 31, 2012 Plans to Build Military Drones to be Reviewed by New French Govt.     France will go back to the drawing board in its plans to build military drones, Defence Minister Jean-Yves…
Article | May 31, 2012 World Surveillance Group Successfully Completes Payload Testing of Argus One UAV World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) and related technologies, announced today that the Company…
Article | May 31, 2012 Hood Technology UAV Imaging Systems to be Used by Iraqi Navy The UAV imaging systems from Hood Technology will be utilized by the Iraqi Navy for monitoring oil platforms beyond the…
Article | May 31, 2012 Raytheon Unveils Prototype ISR System to Canadian Army Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, recently unveiled its Light Armoured Vehicle Reconnaissance Surveillance System…
Article | May 31, 2012 Northrop Grumman & L-3 MAS Join Forces on Unmanned System for Canadian Security Northrop Grumman Corporation and L-3 MAS announced plans today to join forces on a variant of the Northrop Grumman-produced Global…
Article | May 29, 2012 New Piezoelectric Accelerometer Technologies for UAV Ground Vibration Testing Kistler has announced availability of its piezoelectric accelerometer technologies for cost-effective, high-accuracy support of aircraft, helicopter, rotorcraft, missile, satellite and…
Article | May 29, 2012 Cargo Hookup Completed with K-MAX Unmanned Cargo Helicopter Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2, the “Night Owls,” made history earlier this week when they completed the first “hot…
Article | May 29, 2012 AeroVironment and Textron Advance Armed Mini-UAVs Textron Defense Systems has demonstrated refinements to its BattleHawk squad-level loitering munition with flights of the lethal unmanned aircraft for…
Article | May 29, 2012 NexTech Awarded ONR Contract to Develop UUV Energy System NexTech Materials, Ltd. has received a contract from the Office of Naval Research for a Future Naval Capability (FNC) project…
Article | May 29, 2012 Indian Forces Issue Tender for Supply of mini-UAVs The Indian hi-tech industry is growing fast, but for particular equipment such as modern pocket UAVs, Delhi continues to launch…
Article | May 29, 2012 Engineers Develop Cheap Onboard Tracking System For UAVs The popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs has exploded in just a few years. That’s the result of smaller,…
Article | May 29, 2012 U.S. Plans to Arm Italy’s Drones The Obama administration plans to arm Italy’s fleet of Reaper drone aircraft, a move that could open the door for…
Article | May 29, 2012 NATO Forces Procure Global Hawk Block 40 UAV Global Hawk Block 40(RQ-4) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that has been procured along with four small vehicles by…
Article | May 28, 2012 Drone Lobbying Ramps up Among Industry Manufacturers By Andrea Stone, Huffington Post It may be years before unmanned aircraft are common in the sky, but lobbyists for the…
Article | May 28, 2012 Armed Drones a Future Option for Australian Forces ARMED unmanned aerial vehicles remain an option for the Australian Defence Force arsenal but are not an immediate priority, vice-chief…
Article | May 27, 2012 Russia to Strengthen Border Security with UAVs Russia will keep strengthening its border security, replacing outdated protective installations such as barbed wire fences with advanced surveillance and…
Article | May 27, 2012 Heron TP Stays Grounded as Israel Studies UAS Crash A disagreement between Israel Aerospace Industries and the Israeli air force over the cause of a Heron TP (“Eitan”) unmanned…
Article | May 27, 2012 FCC Explores Emergency Aerial Communications Using UAVs The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to explore the use of Deployable Aerial Communications Architecture…
Article | May 25, 2012 Bluefin AUVs to be compatible with SeeByte SeeTrack through new plug-in Bluefin Robotics, the leading provider of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) solutions for US Navy Programs of Record and SeeByte, the…
Article | May 25, 2012 AAI Shadow 200 UAV Used by Australian Army Brisbane has become the nerve centre for a new hi-tech drone spy plane just launched by the Australian Army in…
Article | May 24, 2012 Stark Aerospace Announces New Subsidiary for ISR Services Stark Aerospace has established a new subsidiary, Stark Flight Services, to provide Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) services and focused…
Article | May 24, 2012 AeroVironment to Deploy Small UAS for Federal Communications Commission Post-Disaster Communications Demonstration AeroVironment today announced it will employ its small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to demonstrate aerial communications capabilities for the Federal…
Article | May 24, 2012 Orbital to supply FlexDI engines for use in AAI UAS Orbital is pleased to announce that it has been contracted to supply heavy fuel engines for use in AAI Unmanned…
Article | May 24, 2012 ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System Exceeds 600,000 Flight Hours Insitu announced today that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system has exceeded 600,000 combat flight hours, maintaining a 99 percent mission-readiness…
Article | May 24, 2012 Deployment of Lockheed Martin Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) UGV May Be Extended The original three-month Afghan tour of four Lockheed Martin Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) unmanned ground vehicles might be extended…
Article | May 24, 2012 UAV Imaging System Produces 3D Models of Historical Monuments University of Granada researchers have developed a 3D imaging system that scans 3D models of historical buildings using data obtained…