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Italian Reaper UAVs Set to Become Weapons Platforms

A weapons supply contract for Reaper UAVs between the US government and the Italian Air Force is expected to be announced in June.

1 Jun 2012

Iraqi Navy to Use Hood Technology’s UAV Imaging Systems

The UAV imaging systems from Hood Technology will be utilized by the Iraqi Navy for monitoring oil platforms beyond the southern coast of the country.

31 May 2012

Market Report on UAV by Visiongain

Visiongain’s analysis represents that the UAV market will attain a value of $7.26 B in 2012, following the consistent demand for UAVs for a wide range of military operations essential for combat and humanitarian missions.

28 May 2012

Orbital Achieves Supply Contract from AAI for Delivering FlexDI Engines to Deploy in SUAS

Orbital declares that it has achieved contract for delivery of heavy fuel engines for deployment in Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) of AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (AAI).

28 May 2012

NATO Forces to Gain Security by Procuring New UAV

Global Hawk Block 40(RQ-4) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that has been procured along with its four small vehicles by 13 NATO nations.

28 May 2012

AeroVironment to Utilize Small UAS for Re-establishing Post-Disaster Federal Communications

AeroVironment recently declared the deployment of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). With this UAS, aerial communication potential for the Federal Communications Commission’s Deployable Aerial Communications Architecture (DACA) Notice of Inquiry (NOI) proceeding will be demonstrated.

28 May 2012

Researchers Use UAS to Generate 3-D Models Of Monuments

A 3D imaging system has been designed by researchers at the University of Granada that can scan 3D models of historical buildings based on data obtained from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It is the first 3D imaging system to integrate UAV functions, virtual representation of models and image-based 3D modeling technologies to generate a realistic 3D object modeling from images.

25 May 2012

RMT Robotics to Expand New ADAM Autonomous Mobile Robot in Japan

A Cimcorp Oy company called RMT Robotics, known for producing and integrating ADAM autonomous mobile robots (AMR) has achieved a sales representative agreement with eepos Japan. Following the agreement, RMT Robotics will promote and commercialize its ADAM mobile robots in Japan.

25 May 2012

Insitu’s ScanEagle UAS Achieves Milestone of Over 600,000 Flight Hours

Insitu recently declared that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system has achieved over 600,000 combat flight hours. Also, it has maintained a 99 % mission-readiness rate.

25 May 2012