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First Euro Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System Touches Down in Germany
Euro Hawk, the first high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE), signals intelligence (SIGINT) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) based on the RQ-4 Global Hawk produced by Northrop Grumman for the German Bundeswehr, successfully touched down in Manching, Germany, today. The Euro Hawk took off on July 20 at 2:50 PDT (11:50 Central European Summer Time) from Edwards Air Force [...]
X-47B UAS Completes Second, Third Test Flight
Flights Begin Expansion of Tests to Prove Aircraft’s Performance, Handling Characteristics Less than a month after completing the first flight of the U.S. Navy’s X-47B UCAS-Demonstration aircraft, flight test engineers from Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the Navy have successfully completed the aircraft’s second and third flights. A photo accompanying this release is available at [...]
Hunter UAS Reaches 100k Flight Hours Operational Milestone
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Hunter Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), in use with the U.S. Army since 1996, recently surpassed 100,000 flight hours in service, more than 72,000 of which were flown in combat. The MQ-5B Hunter, which is currently deployed supporting contingency operations across the globe, provides warfighters with state-of-the-art reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition (RSTA), communications [...]
Global Observer UAS Achieves Historic First Hydrogen-Powered Flight
AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) today announced that the Global Observer unmanned aircraft system has successfully completed its historic first flight powered by the aircraft’s hydrogen-fueled propulsion system at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB) in California. This milestone marks the beginning of high altitude, long endurance flight testing for the demonstration and operational utility phase of the [...]
Global Observer UAS Completes Initial Flight Testing
WASHINGTON, at AUSA: AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) today announced that the first aircraft developed under the Global Observer Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) program has successfully completed initial flight testing consisting of multiple low-altitude flights at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB) in California. This initial flight test phase of the demonstration program employed batteries to power [...]
Lockheed Submits Proposal for Cargo UAS Services Request
WASHINGTON: Lockheed Martin and Kaman Aerospace Corporation, a subsidiary of Kaman Corporation, have formally offered the K-MAX unmanned helicopter in response to a U.S. Naval Air Systems Command request for a cargo unmanned aircraft system. Earlier this year, the unmanned K-MAX system successfully demonstrated its ability to resupply troops in a simulated environment similar to [...]
Taiwan Developing Unmanned Aircraft: Defense Minister
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s defence ministry said Tuesday it was developing an unmanned surveillance aircraft, showing that the island’s arms race with China has not ended despite improving ties. Yu Sy-tue, spokesman for defence minister Kao Hua-chu, told AFP that the island’s military-run Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology near Taipei has started research on drones, [...]
‘Grey Eagle’ weaponized UAS slated for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: Army unmanned aircraft systems officials said success was so great with the integration and testing of the Hellfire missile aboard the Grey Eagle UAS that the Army would begin deployment of four weaponized systems to Afghanistan in the fall. In a Pentagon bloggers roundtable Aug. 25, Col. Greg Gonzalez, program manager for Army UAS [...]
Enhanced Nighttime Imagery On Its NightEagle
Bingen WA: Insitu has announced that its NightEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) is now fully integrated into combat operations after successfully completing fielding of an upgraded mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imager payload. Insitu responded to an urgent, mission-critical request to field the advanced MWIR imager, which provides even greater nighttime vision for the warfighter. The new [...]
