All Military UAVs articles – Page 310
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Bomber roadshow
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The USAF is pushing its bombers to the forefront of the expeditionary air force concept. But how long can they last? Deployment side by side of Northrop Grumman B-2s and Boeing B-52s is set to become commonplace as the US Air Force seeks to ...
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Gulf states go shopping - but there's no big deal
As US and UK warplanes continued to bombard neighbouring Iraq , defence officials and military representatives from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states went shopping. Their marketplace: the 4th International Defence Exhibition and Conference, or IDEX 99, in the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi. About 850 exhibitors from 41 ...
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Bombardier wins Australian UAV lease competition
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA Bombardier Defence Systems has won an Australian Department of Defence competition for the short-term lease of a tactical unmanned air vehicle (TUAV), with its Guardian CL-327 vertical take-off and landing system. A contract is expected to be signed in the next two to three weeks. Bombardier ...
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Fly-off will decide winner of US Army fast-track UAV contest
The US Army is to open its Close Range Tactical Unmanned Air Vehicle (CR-TUAV) programme to a fast-track competition, with "fly-off" flight trials to be completed by August. The competition will be conducted in two phases, with the first to demonstrate system capabilities. The second phase calls for selection ...
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Pakistan unveils low cost unmanned air vehicle for 'poor' nations
Pakistan's Air Weapons Complex (AWC) says that its new low-cost unmanned air vehicle (UAV) is aimed at 'poor' nations. Officials give no indication as to how inexpensive the UAV is to purchase. The Mark 2 vehicle's show debut was the first time it had been seen outside Pakistan. An earlier ...
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Northrop launches F/A-18 radar drive
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Northrop Grumman has begun flight testing a "fourth generation" active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar as it prepares to bid to develop an active-array radar for the Boeing F/A-18E/F. The technology demonstration, in the company's BAC One-Eleven avionics flying testbed, is in support of its ...
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Revolutionary rotorcraft enters US race for maritime VTOL UAV
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The UK's Intora-Firebird is to offer its Firebird hydrogen peroxide-powered rotorcraft in the US Department of Defense's competition to acquire a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) for the US Navy and Marine Corps. The company joins a list of contenders for the ...
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News in Brief
Cambodia must pay up Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has suspended delivery of four Cambodian air force MiG-21 fighters to ensure the payment of a $1 million bill for upgrading the aircraft. The first two upgraded MiG-21s were delivered in January 1997. Work on the other four was frozen when ...
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Tactical control tested with Outrider
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The Tactical Control System (TCS) being developed to operate the US Department of Defense's family of tactical unmanned air vehicles (TUAV) was successfully tested recently with the Alliant Techsystems Outrider. Two separate Outrider flights were conducted in early February at the company's flight operations centre ...
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Heavyweights to contend supply contract
The US Navy will shortly issue fresh request for proposals (RfP) to helicopter manufacturers and operators for a three year vertical replenishment (vertrep) service to support the fleet in the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf. This latest vertrep contract, extendible for up to five years, follows a series of ...
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Electro-magnetic launcher sought for carrier
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Navy (USN) intends to award competing contracts for development of an electro-magnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) for the planned CVX next-generation aircraft carrier. The first CVX, which would be capable of conventional take-off-and-landing (CTOL) operations, would be bought in the fiscal year 2006. ...
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New power source explored for Freewing Scorpion
Freewing Aerial Robotics and DCH Technology of the USA have launched an exploratory development programme to integrate DCH Technology's hydrogen fuel cells into the Freewing Scorpion Tilt-Body Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). The multiphase project will begin with substitution of existing lead-acid batteries needed to operate sensor payloads. The research ...
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General Atomics on prowl for UAV requirement
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of the USA has offered its Prowler II and I-GNAT unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) for the Australian Army's competition for the short-term lease of a tactical UAV system. The requirement is also being contested by AAI with the Shadow 600, Kentron with the Seeker, and ...
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Aerojet wins Atlas V SRMs
Tim Furniss/LONDON GenCorp Aerojet has won a $500 million contract to build solid rocket motors (SRMs) for the Lockheed Martin Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV). The US launcher builder has also changed the name of the EELV to the Atlas V. The addition of the SRMs has been ...
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US Coast Guard charts Deepwater course
RamonLopez/WASHINGTON DC The impending retirement of Sikorsky Jayhawks and other aircraft has sparked the competition The US Coast Guard (USCG) is looking for new hardware to maintain its core humanitarian, law enforcement and military missions into the 21st century, both in coastal/inland waterways, and for missions out ...
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Global Hawk looks to a wider role as DarkStar burns out
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical's Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance system has demonstrated the ability to collect and transmit synthetic aperture radar (SAR), electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) imagery in near real time, in a flight which marked the first use of all three sensors on the same mission. ...
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F-16 and C-17 are big winners in Pentagon's FY2000 budget plan
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Defense (DoD) fiscal year 2000 budget plan contains several unexpected procurement decisions for the US forces. They include additional Lockheed MartinF-16C/Ds, Boeing C-17 transports and one Northrop Grumman Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft that were not planned for ...
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Darkstar trials
The second Tier III Minus Dark Star unmanned air vehicle (UAV) has completed its first high altitude flight, to 25,000ft (7,600m). The 2h 37m flight, from Edwards AFB, California, included an automated take-off and landing using global positioning navigational data. The mission demonstrated the UAV's ability to update preplanned mission ...
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UK carrier concept awaits fighter decision
Howard Gethin/LONDON The UK Ministry of Defence has opened a contest for the contract worth up to £1.48 billion ($2.44 billion) to build two aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. Invitations to tender have been issued to six potential prime contractors: British Aerospace Defence Systems, Marconi Electronic Systems, Boeing, Lockheed ...
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Dutch plan air force cuts
The Netherlands armed forces face significant cuts, including the retirement of Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters, P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft and Fokker F-27 transports, but will gain new helicopters and a theatre missile defence capability. The changes stem from a memorandum published on 25 January by the Dutch Ministry of ...