The Israeli air force is to equip its Israel Aircraft Industries Heron unmanned air vehicles with an advanced electro-optical payload currently used on its Raytheon Beech 200 King Air platforms. The service’s Machatz 1 configuration Heron has an endurance of over 40h and an operational ceiling of 30,000ft (9,150m).
Source: Flight International
In a first of its kind flight, a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Gray Eagle short take-off and landing uncrewed aircraft has launched from a South Korean amphibious assault ship, the equivalent of a light aircraft carrier
As part of the evaluation, the navy controlled a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-20 Avenger uncrewed aerial vehicle using the Lockheed Martin control station that will be installed in the service’s fleet of aircraft carriers.
To land aboard US Navy aircraft carriers, Boeing’s unmanned MQ-25 Stingray tanker jet will make use of the Joint Precision Approach Landing System – a technology originally deployed to autonomously land Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters.
