UAV

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• in Gadgets
  Don't Want To Call this UAV a Blimp? Call It A Video Firehose
  Latest DoD UAS "blimp" plans have more hurdles than just gravity.
  by knowlengr / on Oct 15, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “UAV”

• ASD Releases Report on UAV Market

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 440
  Our premier sponsor, ASD Reports, has just released a new one on The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market 2009-2019. You can find it here . This report reviews one of the defence industry’s most interesting and promising markets. The market study describes leading UAV programs and products, with the prospects ...
  3 days ago

• AAI jumps into cargo UAS market with slowed rotor/compound helo

  
  The DEW Line — Authority: 607
  RQ-7 Shadow and Aerosonde-maker AAI Corp. wants to develop a new slowed rotor/compound aircraft as a cargo-carrying unmanned aircraft system, my colleague John Croft reports today. Read the full article here: AAI Grabs technology stake in fledgling Carter The aircraft shown above could be pursued under a ...
  4 days ago

• Ouch: Boeing Laser Zaps Drone

  
  BotJunkie — Authority: 643
  Boeing’s drone-zappin’ laser cannon we posted about back in January has gone live in tests, and has had no problem shooting down not one, not two, but five hapless unmanned drones using a “relatively low laser power” weapon outputting about 2.5 kilowatts. It’s not clear how, exactly, the drones were ...
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• Pilotless Airplane Control Station

  
  Yanko Design — Authority: 736
  Someone must design everything. Everything I tell you! One of my favorite stickers of all time is one I saw at my alma mater design school: this sticker said “Someone Designed This.” T’was stuck on everything! T’would be stuck on this if it were appropriate – but it’s not! Know why? It’s a UAV control ...
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• Is There a Cultural Shift Occurring in the Air Force?

  
  God and Country — Authority: 132
  The culture of the Air Force is in many ways like high school. Fighter pilots are the jocks, the cool kids who rule the campus. And drone pilots? They’re the AV club.As has been frequently said here (and as described in the book), the stereotype is that Air Force fighter pilots are the glorious rulers [...]
  5 days ago

• BAE Mantis Takes Flight

  
  BotJunkie — Authority: 643
  That sweet looking Mantis UAV from BAE that we spotted at AUVSI earlier this year has taken its first flight out in Australia. The Mantis has a wingspan of 20 meters and is designed to be modular and easy to transport, with capabilities for long range surveillance as well as weapon delivery. Just 19 months ago the ...
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• Missile Delivered UAVs

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 626
  The US Army is funding Missile Delivered UAVs amongst dozens of other projects A10-006 Missile Delivered UAV A10-010 Real-time Visualization Tool for Distributed Intrusion Detection System Data A10-011 Intelligent Agents for Improved Sensor Deployment and Surveillance A10-012 Coordinated Responses through ...
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• Unmanned Aircraft Crews Strive To Support Warfighters

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 504
  An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft prepares to taxi out of a hangar at Joint Base Balad in Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson) From The U.S. Air Force: WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- As Pentagon officials look for ways to increase intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for ...
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• Mantis takes flight - the UK’s largest ever fully-autonomous UAV

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 710
  The largest fully-autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) ever to be built in the UK has completed initial flight trials in Woomera, South Australia. Built by BAE Systems for the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) the Mantis is the company’s first genuine fly-by-wire, all-electric aircraft and is designed to execute ...
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• Indias Rustom UAV Crashes During First Flight

  
  LiveFist - The Best of Indian Defence — Authority: 432
  Bad news. The first technology demonstrator of Indias RUSTOM medium altitude long endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programme crashed during its first test flight on Tuesday, November 16, at the Taneja Aerospace airfield near Hosur in Karnataka. Sources present at the test have told LiveFist that the ...
  6 days ago

• Controversy Over UAV Flight Pay

  
  God and Country — Authority: 132
  An interesting commentary from Military.com describes an alleged controversy over the decision to give UAV “pilots” flight pay.The “controversy” is largely speculative, as there has been no public example of the outcry the author describes:Will we have to come up with new decorations?  For the Distinguished ...
  1 week ago

• The UKs Largest Fully-Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft, Mantis, Completes Initial Flight Trials

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 504
  From Defense Professionals: Farnborough, UK | BAE Systems has successfully flown the largest fully autonomous unmanned aircraft ever to be built in the UK. The next generation autonomous system, MANTIS, completed its maiden flight in Woomera, South Australia. During subsequent flights, MANTIS successfully completed ...
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• Drone Ops Video

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 504
  From War is Boring: The U.S. Air Force’s 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron at Kandahar maintains a force of “scores” of MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper armed drones, covering all of southern Afghanistan, 24 hours a day. The squadron launches and lands the ‘bots, and hands off control to operators in ...
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• High tech IED searches

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 499
  Strategy Page: The intelligence techniques that were so successful in Iraq, are still being adapted to the different conditions in Afghanistan. The two big differences are the larger spaces you have to operate in with Afghanistan (where most of the combat is out in the country, not urban), and the hillier terrain ...
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• The Seaglider, Hunting [Ocean]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
      This microphoned submarine glider has been collecting ocean sounds for a few weeks. When it is plucked from the sea in a few more, researchers will use software to parse its audiofiles for rare beaked whale songs. [ Wired ] Read the original here: The Seaglider, Hunting [Ocean]
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• The Seaglider, Hunting [Ocean]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 894
  This microphoned submarine glider has been collecting ocean sounds for a few weeks. When it is plucked from the sea in a few more, researchers will use software to parse its audiofiles for rare beaked whale songs. [ Wired ]
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• The Seaglider, Hunting [Ocean]

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 167
  This microphoned submarine glider has been collecting ocean sounds for a few weeks. When it is plucked from the sea in a few more, researchers will use software to parse its audiofiles for rare beaked whale songs. [ Wired ]
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• A Reaper Built For Anti-Piracy Operations

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 504
  Source: AFRICOM AFRICOM Photo Shows Mystery Reaper Payload In Seychelles -- DEW Line Spotters: I challenge you. US Africa Command yesterday released the photo above of the MQ-9 Reaper returning to its new Seychelles base after an anti-piracy mission on November 4. The photo shows a payload under the wing ...
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• The Dark Sword UAV - Chinese Knockoffs Can Be Better Than the Real Thing

  
  Future Transportation — Authority: 139
  The Chinese military has apparently been copying American UAV designs for a while now. After they got bored simply rebuilding Uncle Sam’s models, they decided to design a few of their own. And they blow ours out of the water.
  1 week ago

• FM newswire, 12 November – links to old-fashioned journalism

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 548
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 4 sections, all with hot news.Links to 4 interesting articles of news and analysisQuote of the DayNews about themes from 2 posts past on the FM websiteThought for the day (-1)Plus an Afterword(I)  Links to interesting news and analysis(a)  “State ...
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