All Military UAVs articles – Page 317
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Rotary Rocket wins $6 million backing
ROTARY ROCKET has secured $6 million of initial financing from private investors to begin design of its Roton re-usable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle. Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites will build the Roton, which will take off like a conventional booster, but land like an unpowered helicopter. The first flight is scheduled for ...
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In HARM's way
Several show debutantes at Le Bourget indicated that defeating air- defence radars remains high on air-force agendas. The USA is working on rocket-ramjet-powered dual-mode-seeker missile designs to provide a successor to the Texas Instruments AGM-88 High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) in the defence suppression role. Two potential replacement ...
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All eyes on ALCA
Andrzej Jeziorski/PRAGUE A military band played the fanfare from Jesus Christ Superstar as the L-159 - the first new Central European combat aircraft prototype since the fall of Communism - was officially rolled out at Aero Vodochody's factory near Prague, on 12 June. The choice of ...
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Predator sensor
Northrop Grumman has received $16 million from the US Army to produce additional Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar (TESAR) payloads for the General Atomics Predator unmanned air vehicle. The contract provides for nine TESAR payloads, two spares and a set of ground control-station displays. Delivery will be between May 1998 ...
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JSF marriage hogs limelight on flat defence scene
The British Aerospace link-up with Lockheed Martin for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition stole the headlines at Paris on the defence scene. Many consider the long-predicted transatlantic link a foregone conclusion, but talks had been going between BAe and its two suitors until Monday. It ...
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Pentagon extends Outrider probation
Flight testing of the Alliant Techsystems Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle (UAV) is being put on the fast track as the company has been given additional time by the US Deparmtment of Defense to prove the drone's capabilities. The Outrider was six months late in being flown, and ...
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Finalist: Northrop Grumman, Electronics
Finalist: Northrop Grumman, Electronics & Systems Integration Division Location Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA Achievement Weight and cost savings through a miniaturised radio-transmitter unit. Northrop Grumman's highly miniaturised C-Band Microwave Power Module (MPM) is already offering significant weight savings in use on the US Navy's E-2C Hawkeye ...
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United States Army selects Grumman radar
The US Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) is to take nine Northrop Grumman Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar (TESAR) payloads. Also in the $16.2million contract is provision for two spares and a set of ground control station displays. TESAR is a compact, lightweight, low-cost surveillance radar ...
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F-16 'still good for another 20 years'
Contrary to suggestions from its competitors, the Lockheed Martin F-16 will be around at the Paris air show for many years to come, says a senior programme official. Responding to attacks by the SAAB/BAe Gripen team on Monday, F-16 programme vice-president Bob Elrod says the F-16 is to ...
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Cobham extends reach in the antenna sector
Cobham has acquired the well-established French antenna designer STAREC, in a move which enhances the UK company's already dominant position in this sector. Cobham is featuring two of its prime companies in Paris - FR Aviation and Chelton (Electrostatics). FR Aviation, with its French subsidiary, Air Precision, ...
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Roamanian shadow
A $20million Romanian defence systems contract has been won by AAI Corporation. Romania is to purchase an AAI Shadow 600 unmanned air vehicle (UAV) system and a Moving Target Simulator (MTS) short-range air defence training package under the contract, the first to be financed under the US Defense Export Loan ...
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UAV renewal
Israel's Defense Forces are renewing their Unmanned Airborne Vehicle (UAV) arsenal with Elbit Systems' newest model. The Hermes 450S is the latest generation UAV, and will be used to meet intelligence requirements for ground forces, supplying real time battlefield data around the clock. They will also ...
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Spaceport Florida set for first launch
Nasa's Lunar Prospector moon reconnaissance orbiter should be the first spacecraft to be launched from Spaceport Florida's new $8million pad at Cape Canaveral this September, a spokesman said at the Show yesterday. Spaceport Florida is a state agency created to boost commercial space enterprises in the state. ...
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Cypher goes through its paces
Sikorsky's Cypher unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has accumulated about 400 flight hours at the company's Development Flight Centre in West Palm Beach, Florida. In a dramatic demonstration at the Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) site at Fort Benning, Georgia, Cypher flew down streets, landed on a building's ...
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Bird's eye view from ESG's
There's a covert helicopter hiding in the clouds that can detect, identify and locate vehicles and people at distances up to 10km. It's called Luna - an airborne, unmanned, short-range reconnaissance system for the Armoured Reconnaissance Corps of the German Army. Portable The Luna ...
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K-MAX customers back for more
Repeat orders for Kaman's K-MAX aerial truck have underlined customer confidence in the aircraft's niche role for the logging, oil rig and pipeline construction and oil exploration markets. Kaman Aerospace announced additional orders for the aerial truck by Mountain West Helicopters in Utah, Midwest Helicopters of Winnipeg, Canada, ...
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Phoenix with new features
Britain's GEC-Marconi Avionics is pursuing development of advanced features for its Phoenix unmanned aerial vehicle. Company director Ray Dennis says future payloads could include a lightweight thermal imager, dual infra-red/television sensors, synthetic aperture radar, electronic warfare systems, GPS navigation, improved ground stations and developments to the air vehicle ...
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Doctored signal makes radar reading suspect
Electronic warfare could be revolutionised when new Drone Radar Electronic Enhancement Mechanism (DREEM) tech-nology is in widespread use on manned aircraft, towed decoys and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Details of DREEM technology to be deployed on the Bristol Aerospace Hokum-X and Vampire test targets to deceive enemy air ...
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French FOG is clear fibre optic winner
France's revolutionary Hussard 2 FOG unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has successfully demonstrated that its fibre optic cable can be used to remotely control air vehicles. The Conference delegates were shown a test video of the system, which is not vulnerable to enemy jamming, according to programme manager Robert ...
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UAVs attract renewed US attention
America's revolutionary high-altitude endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programmes are back on track after a series of setbacks, say Pentagon officials in Paris. USAF Maj Gen Kenneth Israel, Director of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, says it has been a "great year for us". The recent ...