General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has developed a new cockpit ground control station intended to control the company’s Predator C Avenger drone and adapt to other remotely piloted aircraft systems. The company demonstrated the station during a flight test in November 2012 at its Palmdale, Calif. flight operations facility and aimed to use the open systems [...]
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A consortium of companies led by BAE Systems is set to conduct test flights of a combat drone later this year over a desert in southern Australia, nearly four years after BAE tested a propeller-driven drone over the same range. The Taranis drone is named after the Celtic god of thunder and is the world’s [...]
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Lockheed Martin has released the concept design for a new carrier-based drone that will allow for 24/7 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support, according to a Defense Update article. The new design for the unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance and strike air vehicle will integrate F-35C, RQ-170 and other drone system technologies. Tamir Eshel writes that the [...]
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Boeing Promoting Phantom Eye Drone as Comm Relay Hub; Keith Monteith Comments
April 9, 2013 No Comment
Boeing is rebranding a hydrogen-powered drone it unveiled in 2010 as a relay station intended to support remote communications between U.S. Navy ships. The company built Phantom Eye with 150-foot wingspan, 10,000 pounds total takeoff weight, 450-pound payload capacity and two four-cylinder engines producing 150 horsepower each, Wired reported Tuesday. Spencer Ackerman writes the company is [...]
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Lockheed Martin is developing an unmanned autonomous battlefield surveillance vehicle for the Army intended to be controlled via satellite. The Squad Mission Support System drone was controlled from more than 200 miles away during a recent demonstration at Camp Grayling, Mich., the company says. For the demonstration, SMSS contained a Gyrocam 9M tactical surveillance sensor [...]
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is claiming it successfully brought down mock foreign surveillance drones during recent tests, Reuters reports. Citing a report from the state’s Fars news agency, Stephen Powell writes the government used hypothetical drones in the test. Powell writes that the news agency removed the word “hypothetical” from its account of the test with [...]
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