Military UAVs – Page 314
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Romania gets Shadow 600
AAI has delivered six Shadow 600 unmanned air vehicles and their associated ground control station to Romania. The $20 million contract was the first to be financed by the US Government's new Defence Export Loan Guarantee programme. AAI has sold Shadow 600 systems to another, undisclosed, country, believed to ...
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UK procurement chief outlines broad ambitions for UAVs
Ramon Lopez/Bristol UK chief of defence procurement, Sir Robert Walmsley, has spelled out the UK Ministry of Defence's increasing interest in use of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). "UAVs are capable of providing support to the warfighter or even becoming a replacement for the warfighter and have gained the ...
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UCAV bids arrive
Bids for the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstration were submitted in late March. Northrop Grumman is one of four bidders - with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Systems - and is proposing this flying wing design resembling its B-2 stealth bomber. Bidders ...
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Stand together
Aerospatiale, Dasa, CASA and British Aerospace delivered to the governments of France, Germany, Spain and the UK last week their promised thoughts on how they might achieve global competitiveness in the next century. It is now up to those European governments to decide whether the central plank of the industry's ...
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USAF tests new tactics in EFX '98
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Air Force will explore new fighting concepts, including the use of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) for tactical missions, during the Expeditionary Force Experiment '98 due to take place in September. The experiment will cost an estimated $40 million to conduct. While military exercises ...
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NASA steps up high flier testing
NASA plans to conduct extra test flights of its small fleet of high altitude long duration air vehicles this year as it steps up environmental research work. The Aero Vironment Pathfinder solar powered unmanned air vehicle, which is the most visible aspect of the US space agency's Environmental Research ...
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Boeing/DARPA agree canard rotor/wing trial
Boeing's Phantom Works and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed a $24 million cost sharing contract for a proof of concept demonstration of the canard rotor/wing (CR/W). The three year programme is to include flight testing of a subscale unmanned vehicle to demonstrate vertical take-off and ...
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Sonex heavy fuel
Sonex Research is to convert 40 unmanned air vehicle (UAV) two-stroke engines to use "heavy" fuel (JP-5 or diesel) for the US Marine Corps. The Annapolis, Maryland based company will next month complete similar conversions of engines on US Navy Pioneer UAVs. Source: Flight International
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SAIC No-Show
The US Navy's vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) demonstration to test three unmanned air vehicle (UAV) designs has got under way, but one of three contractors missed the 11 March delivery deadline. Bell Helicopter's Eagle Eye and Bombardier's improved CL-327 Guardian UAV both beat the deadline, and testing of these ...
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Dasa offers MiG-29 to fill EF2000 gap
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) is offering to upgrade Polish, Czech and Hungarian MIGMAPO MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter aircraft to a NATO-interoperable standard as a stopgap until each country is in a position to procure the Eurofighter EF2000. Although the aircraft has so far been considered too expensive for ...
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Global Hawk air vehicle finally spreads its wings
The Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle (UAV) flew for the first time at Edwards AFB, California, on 28 February despite several small anomalies which shortened the inaugural flight. The Global Hawk, a high altitude long endurance (HALE) UAV, flew for 56min, although the initial mission was planned ...
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Small TESAR
Northrop Grumman is to propose a scaled-down version of its Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar (TESAR) for the US Army's Alliant Techsystems Outrider unmanned air vehicle (UAV). The TESAR is in production for the US Air Force's General Atomics Predator UAV, the company having received a $21 million contract for ...
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Silver Arrow unveils long endurance UAV
Israeli unmanned air vehicle (UAV) manufacturer Silver Arrow has rolled out the very long endurance Hermes-1500. The UAV, powered by two Rotax-914s, is to begin flight tests shortly. The vehicle is capable of flying for up to 40h at altitudes of up to 30,000ft (9,000m). Source: Flight International
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DARPA puts limits on UCAV competitors
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The competition to demonstrate an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) is to be limited to four companies - Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Systems - says the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). A request for proposals is to be released on ...
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The judges
The Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards are recognised within the industry as the leading indicator of excellence. Much of this is to do with the high calibre of judges enlisted to study the entries for the awards. This year there was once again a top-line panel at work. Sir ...
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Robo vehicle
Schweizer Aircraft is marketing an unmanned helicopter developed in Japan by Kawada Industries. The company is pursuing US Coast Guard and Navy requirements for vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicles with the RoboCopter 300, a 795kg piston-powered aircraft with a 295kg useful load. Two prototypes of the aircraft could ...
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UAVs go to SEAD
The US Air Force has carried out flight tests of the TRW/Israel Aircraft Industries Hunter unmanned air vehicle (UAV) in the suppression of enemy air defence (SEAD) role. The UAV was used to pinpoint a simulated enemy air defence system for attack by two Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters. The USAF ...
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Pathfinder quest
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US military may have cooled to the concept of solar electric powered unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), but NASA has set new lofty goals for the emerging long endurance UAV. In 1993, the US Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) envisioned deploying Raptor (Responsive Aircraft Programme for Theatre ...
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Israelis arrow in on a new image for uavs
Israeli manufacturers Silver Arrow and Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) are displaying new and improved-performance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) at the show. Silver Arrow has unveiled the medium-altitude endurance (MAE) Hermes 1500 UAV, and the Sniper advanced close range UAV System. From IAI comes the upgraded Searcher II UAV. The Hermes ...
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Global Hawk eyed for missile defences
The US Department of Defense is considering using the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Global Hawk long-endurance unmanned air vehicle to shoot down theatre ballistic missiles in their boost phases. The Global Hawk, being prepared for its first flight, is among several options under study. A modified Global Hawk mounting an ...