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 be brought to the USA for demonstrations.
Source: Flight International
The UK has confirmed the early retirement of 17 Puma HC2 helicopters, 14 of its older Boeing CH-47 Chinooks and the Watchkeeper uncrewed air vehicle (UAV) in a bid to slash costs. Disclosing the move in a statement to the House of Commons on 20 November, defence secretary John Healey ...
A Baykar TB3 unmanned air vehicle has successfully taken off from and landed on Turkey’s sole aircraft carrier.
The Jetank heavy uncrewed aerial vehicle, produced by Chinese state aerospace corporation AVIC, can carry a full load of conventional armaments or be used to deploy so-called swarms of smaller drones.
