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• Digital Raven: Up to $66.6M to AeroVironment for UAV Upgrades

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 568
  RQ-11: higher, faster… (click to view full) AeroVironment in Monrovia, GA received a $23.9 million firm-fixed-price contract modification to supply digital RQ-11 Raven hand-held unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and digital kits to upgrade existing analog RQ-11s being used by the US Army and US Marine Corps. If ...
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• Sky Snake Flexible Blimps Are Bending The Rules On UAV Design

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  A segmented 76-foot airship during flight testing over Stuttgart, Germany. (Sanswire-TAO Corp) From Air And Space Smithsonian: The blimp—that bloated, egg-shaped thing that blocks out the sun at major public events—remains one of aviation’s oddballs. Think Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in the movie ...
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• Hacking the Predator…

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 128
  … or “Cloudy with a slight chance of Hellfire missiles ….” With our tax dollars, we should hire SMARTER people. It was Groucho Marx who said that “ Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ” Awhile ago, I commented that the United Kingdom (UK), which has become known as the “ ...
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• Avatar -Chic CyberQuad UAV Trades Rotors for Fans] [UAVs]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 886
  Cyber Technologies CyberQuad UAV, implementing four silent, ducted fans in lieu of traditional rotor blades, has already been used to survey damaged oil rigs. Someday it will be used to transport...
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• Avatar -Chic CyberQuad UAV Trades Rotors for Fans [UAVs]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 886
  Cyber Technologies CyberQuad UAV, implementing four silent, ducted fans in lieu of traditional rotor blades, has already been used to survey damaged oil rigs. Someday it will be used to transport troops in campaigns to exploit interplanetary resources. The CyberQuad, an "electric ducted quadrotor Vertical Take Off ...
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• Cyber Technology’s UAV perches, stares, makes us a little uncomfortable (Update: now with video!)

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
  [IMG: http://www.family-learning-center.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b43fb_091217-drone-03.jpg]
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• SkyGrabber Software Used By Terrorists to Hack Drone Video Feeds

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 665
  The WSJ reports terrorists in Iraq are using a $26 off-the-shelf piece of software called SkyGrabber –which is a written program that intercepts satellite data– to hack into the video feeds of U.S. Predator drones, the unpiloted planes that are operated by remote control.It seems that...
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• Video Interview: Iraqi Militants Intercepting Drone Video Feeds with $26 Software

  
  Max Trescott on General Aviation — Authority: 415
  Militants in Iraq and Afghanistan have beenintercepting live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones according to the onlineversion of the Wall Street Journal . Using $26 software intended to interceptand decrypt movies transmitted over satellites, the insurgents have been ableto monitor and potentially evade U.S. ...
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• Hacked Drones

  
  Neptunus Lex — Authority: 568
  Fox is reporting that at least some of the UAV video in Iraq is being tapped by Iranian-supported militias there: Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes’ ...
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• CyPhy Works Wins UAV Grant

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 665
  IT , Robotics , startups Wade Roush wrote: DroidWorks, the stealth-mode robotics company launched early in 2009 by iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner , has changed its name to CyPhy Works and has won a $2.4 million research award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study ways of ...
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• Video: Scientific Drones Take Flight at Earth’s Icy Poles

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 756
  SAN FRANCISCO — Space is not the only place where special craft can boldly go where no man has gone before. The earth’s polar regions are incredibly difficult places for human beings to do science, so researchers are increasingly turning to unmanned aerial vehicles to make the observations they need to understand ...
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• Rockwell Collins CEO: ex-fighter pilot sees need for pilotless aircraft

  
  Summit Notebook — Authority: 565
  On the surface, it would appear that a fighter pilot would have little interest in a remotely piloted aircraft, which more and more are being used in wars for reconnaissance and firing missiles. It isn’t too big a leap to wonder whether in the future perhaps drones will take away jobs from fighter pilots. But ...
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• Israel and Russia in UAV Deal

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 568
  Searcher II with SAR (click to view full) “ Syria Buying MiG-31s, MiG-29s for $1 billion ” covers ongoing speculation about a potential fighter deal with Iranian financing; some reports even place the Islamic Republic of Iran as the ultimate recipient. Recent reports say that Russia has put the deal on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• FLIR to Supply Surveillance Systems to Middle East/North African Customers

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 568
  FLIR Star SAFIRE III thermal system image (click to view larger) FLIR Systems received a $6.7 million contract to supply infrared multi-sensor surveillance systems to unidentified customers in the Middle East and North Africa. The surveillance systems are based on a commercially-developed/military-qualified ...
  2 weeks ago

• Foreign aircraft violate Indian Air Space 11 times in last one year

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  New Delhi, Dec 2 (ANI): Defence Minister A K Antony on Wednesday stated in the Rajya Sabha that in last one year India witnessed 11 air violations by the foreign aircraft.In a written reply, Antony stated that Pakistan intruded six times into the Indian Air space, while China did the same three times and the [...]
  3 weeks ago

• To stop them getting in…or us getting out?

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 484
  David Davis BAe Systems (I thought it was on OUR side?) is developing UAVs (drones) to “patrol the coastline”, to deal with “smuggling” and “illegal immigrants”. Never thought I would hear the term “Police Aviation” used seriously and without irony. Does not sound very libertarian to me. If ...
  4 weeks ago

• Russian Air Force rejects home-made UAVs as inferior

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Moscow, Nov 26 (RIA Novosti) The Russian Air Force considers the unmanned aerial vehicles offered by domestic manufacturers to be inferior in quality, the force commander said Thursday.Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said the Russian-made UAVs delivered to the air force failed to meet the required specifications. “To put ...
  4 weeks ago

• Israeli Manufacturers’ $150M Turkish UAV Contract Endangered

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 568
  IAI Heron (click to view full) In April 2005, Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems won an contract to supply medium endurance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Turkish military. Turkey’s local industry would provide sub-systems and services amounting to 30% of the contract. The contract’s ...
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• $302.9M to Northrop Grumman for 5 USAF RQ-4 Global Hawks

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 568
  RQ-4: High flight (click to view full) The RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have provided invaluable intelligence to US troops in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan over the years. In its first year of use in Afghanistan, the RQ-4 provided [pdf] more than 17,000 high-resolution images, flying ...
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• Robotic Spy Planes Go Green

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  This photo shows the Ion Tiger in flight. The 550-watt fuel cell is show in the box in the lower left corner. Credit: Naval Research Laboratory From Live Science: Robot spy planes are harnessing alternative energy to make them more covert and longer lasting than ever. Such drones could also find use in civilian ...
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