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India Begins Global Search for UCAVs NEW DELHI - India has entered the global market to purchase unmanned combat UAVs (UCAVs) following a request for information sent to defense companies in Europe, Israel, Russia and the United States. UCAVs will be inducted in the Indian Air Force and used...

AIT software for precise UAV landing AIT software for precise UAV landing The ARMY Institute of Technology (AIT) has developed a software programme which, it claims, increases the precision in landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by doing away with the need for even a human remote...

France and UK to Develop European MALE UAV France and the UK is to launch a joint technology study to develop a European medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) surveillance drone. Dassault Aviation international director Eric Trappier told DefenseNews that the UK and French authorities are...

How UAVs Will Change Aviation Are airplane pilots destined for the same fate as flight navigators and engineers? Will they be replaced by lines of code, electrons and data-linked commands from faceless controllers beyond the horizon? However unlikely that scenario, the trend is worth noting...

Rustom MALE UAV Programme Up For Cabinet Approval Rustom MALE UAV Programme Up For Cabinet Approval India's Rustom medium altitude long endurance (MALE) UAV will be a Rs 1,500-crore project and has now reached the government's apex Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) for final financial...

Quadrotor UAV may be the most manoeuvrable yet 03 Jun 2010 : Truly amazing video of a lab-prototype UAV with 'aggressive manoeuvres' developed by students of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. The little motor drives...

cross posting VTOL UAV could aid fight against pirates Israeli unmanned air systems maker Innocon has unveiled a fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing concept designed for shipboard operations, to help protect shipping from pirates. Powered by a four-stroke engine, the 1.5m (4.9ft)-long...

Indian firm produces indigenous UAVS NEW DELHI: India has finally produced indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), with the Indian Air Force (IAF) getting its first lot recently. The UAVs, however, have not been developed by the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)...

Boeing rolls out Phantom Ray ahead of December flight debut Boeing rolled out a flight-ready Phantom Ray unmanned air system demonstrator on 10 May, but first flight remains scheduled for December. The flying-wing design is heavily based on the X-45C programme cancelled by the US Air Force...

Cross posting UAVs 'crash-landed' in Jaisalmer village JAISALMER: Villagers at Indo-Pak border in Jaisalmer district had some awful moments when two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) landed in their fields recently. A few villagers, after finding the vehicles unmanned, dismantled them and...

Nishant Nears End Of Confirmation Trials Nishant UAV photo: DRDO India's Nishant UAV entered its last lap of confirmation trials in Pokhran April 26. Officials with India's Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) say that the unmanned aircraft has met all requirements. The...

Nishant undegoes confirmatory trials at Pokhran Four Nishants from the LSP block are undergoing confirmatory trials at Pokhran. Photos: DRDO India's Nishant UAV is undergoing crucial confirmatory user trials at Pokhran. The trials began April 20 and will last for one more week. A senior...

Predator-series UAVs surpass one million flight hours The General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) Predator-series of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has surpassed one million flight hours, the company announced on 6 April. The milestone encompasses just under 80,000 missions, over 85...

Countries across the globe shows interest in "drone" The US-made RQ-4 Global Hawk spy plane looks like an upside-down double-decker bus with wings, flies slowly, offers zero leg room and is one of the most coveted pieces of military technology in the world. Impressed by its successes in combat...

Indra Develops Unmanned Helicopter for Naval Missions Indra, with the support of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism along with the Ministry of Defence, started up an R&D project to develop an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) of rotary wings and with dual use, either for civil or...