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Navy Balloon Launches Drone, Which Drops Two More Spy Bots It just might be the most convoluted spy program in the Pentagon's history: Fly a balloon up to 60,000 feet, and have it unleash a drone. Then, have that drone deploy several smaller surveillance drones that glide to the ground and...

US Army to deploy UAS The U.S. Army is using a hybrid-type acquisition approach to develop a helicopter-like, Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing Unmanned Aerial System with a so-called ARGUS wide-area surveillance sensor suite designed to beam back information and images of the surrounding...

There is no fun in buying the "battle proven drones" from US with KIll switch & inbuilt programmed bugs, which are of no use to them now & derail our own development of Rustom series. We already have our UCAV program AURA. More over , we are not in such a dire need of such strike drones. for...

Don't Breathe, There's a UAV Outside California-based TiaLinx has launched a mini-UAV carrying a miniature millimeter-wave radar able to detect someone hiding motionless behind a wall - by sensing their breathing. The Phoenix40-A UAV carries a "fine-beam ultra-wideband, multi-gigahertz...

Lakshya-2 performs low-altitude tests India has conducted low-altitude trials with its developmental Lakshya-2 target drone, with the aircraft performing high-g manoeuvres at altitudes as low as 82ft (25m). On a test conducted on 20 December 2010, the drone flew 5.4nm (10km) at an...

Killer Drones Converge on California, Ready to Take Off Five years ago, the Pentagon was on cusp of an air-combat revolution. For a few brief, heady months in late 2005, it looked like the U.S. military might soon launch full-scale development of a new class of fast, lethal Unmanned Aerial...

Brazil selects Elbit's Hermes 450 UAV Brazil's air force has selected the Elbit Systems Hermes 450 for an operational requirement for an initial two unmanned air vehicles and one ground control station. A contract is expected to be signed in early 2011 after some remaining details have been...

Navy to Make ScanEagle Lethal? The US Navy has begun work on a guided-munition version of the ScanEagle small unmanned aircraft - but that's all it is saying for now. The news is contained in a release from the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) at China Lake about development...

Fire Scout UAV Operates Across the US NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER: Across the United States, the Navy's Fire Scout Vertical Take-Off and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle took the skies, operating in four different locations ashore and afloat, Nov.18. Over the...

USMC splits unmanned cargo resupply contract Rivals Lockheed Martin and Boeing will both provide unmanned cargo resupply services to the US Marine Corps under a split $75 million fixed-price contract award, the Pentagon announced on 2 December. Under the deal, Lockheed, together with...

US Army flies new unmanned aircraft in Iraq CAMP TAJI, IRAG (BNS): The US Army's newest 'eyes in the sky' - the MQ-1C Gray Eagle - is being tested by a unit known as the Quick Reaction Capability 1-Reaction 1, in Iraq. The unmanned aircraft is being used in combat in Irag before the army...

India's indigenous UCAV 'Aura' taking shape in DRDO labs NEW DELHI (BNS): India's premier defence agency DRDO is developing an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), which it has named 'Aura'. Three DRDO laboratories – the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the Aeronautical Development...

Aurora's Orion UAV Aurora Flight Sciences is in talks with potential system integrators to help put its Orion five-day-endurance unmanned aircraft into production if a U.S. Air Force-funded technology demonstration proves successful. The small Manassas, Va.-based company rolled out the first...

High-Flying Spy Drone, Powered By Liquid Coal No unmanned aircraft in the American arsenal flies higher or longer than the Global Hawk. On Tuesday, it soared high and long, powered by a blend of synthetic fuel. The Northrop-built drone touched down late Tuesday night at Edwards Air Force Base...

US Spec Ops Wants Hybrid Small UAS US Special Operations Command is looking for a hybrid propulsion system to extend the endurance of small hand- and air-launched unmanned aircraft, and the Air Force Research Laboratory will brief industry on Dec 1-2 on its new Small Unmanned Renewable Energy...

China Developing Armed/Recon UAVs ZHUHAI, China - China is making inroads in the development of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as was evident at last week's 8th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (2010 Zhuhai Airshow). The biennial air show and defense exhibition...

China's Armed UAV Ambitions If there is one dominant theme from the Zhuhai air show in terms of defense, it is the focus not just on unmanned aircraft, but on arming those systems. It is driving a host of industrial activities in China, not just in the unmanned aircraft area itself, but also...

Boeing Phantom Ray Completes Low-speed Taxi Tests St. Louis MO (SPX) Nov 23, 2010 Boeing's Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system successfully completed low-speed taxi tests on Nov. 18 at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis. "Phantom Ray did exactly what it was supposed to do," said Craig...

CAMCOPTER – More Than a Foot in the Door in the US Market The CAMCOPTER S-100 also provides maritime recce capabilities. Interview with Hans-Georg Schiebel, Chairman, Schiebel Group of Companies The US market for unmanned air systems (UAS) is bustling with start-ups and established...

UCAS-D to Taxi Early Next Month By Amy Butler, Guy Norris Palmdale, Calif., Palmdale, Calif. Northrop Grumman plans to perform the first high-speed taxi of its X-47B unmanned combat air system (UCAS-D) demonstrator by the first week of December as a prelude to first flight by year-end at...