sUAS News – 29.03.2021 – Orbital Corporation Ltd (‘Orbital UAV’) is pleased to announce it has signed a new engine development and supply agreement with Textron subsidiary, Lycoming Engines. The new agreement includes a 12-month engine development program, which will enable the integration of an Orbital UAV-designed core engine, including proprietary fuel and engine control systems, into Textron Systems’ Aerosonde program. Textron subsidiary Textron Systems is a world leader in unmanned aircraft systems and one of the largest suppliers of tactical UAVs to the U.S. armed forces… lire l’article
UAS weekly – 02.04.2021 – Altitude Angel, the world’s leading UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider, has been selected by Dutch drone enterprise solutions innovator AirHub to power its operations management software platform. The AirHub platform offers drone operators one, easy-to-use, workflow to plan, execute and manage missions legally and efficiently. It provides operators with the ability to check airspace advisories and regulations within a matter of seconds, fill out a flight plan with all essentials of the mission and submit it to the authorities through its U-Space connection. AirHub will draw on Altitude Angel’s GuardianUTM airspace management platform for accurate, real-time, and relevant geospatial data… lire l’article
PanArmenian – 01.04.2021 – The United States Army is using the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh to study the use of dronesin warfare and how inexpensive UAVs make it easier to hunt and kill troops than ever before, Foreign Policy says in a fresh article. “You can see video of tanks being hit by an unmanned aerial system, artillery positions being hit by an unmanned aerial system, troops being hit by an unmanned aerial system,” said Col. Scott Shaw, the outgoing head of the Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group… lire l’article
Naval News – 01.04.2021 – Safran Electronics & Defense has signed a contract with Dassault Avia>ion to provide new generation Euroflir™410 optronic (electro-optical) systems for two different Falcon-based aircraft: a dozen Albatros, derived from the Falcon 2000LXS, and the eight Falcon 50M Triton models upgraded as part of the French navy’s program to modernize its maritime surveillance and intervention aircraft. The new-generation EuroflirTM 410, a key part of the SAR suite (Search & Rescue), will deliver unrivaled observation capabilities, even under low-visibility conditions, thanks in particular to a very-long-range telescope and high-performance line-of-sight stabilization… lire l’article
Ouest France – 02.04.2021 – Enedis a investi dans les drones pour l’entretien de son réseau électrique dans l’Indre et les utilise depuis septembre dernier. Ces engins permettent de survoler les installations électriques, détecter ses éventuelles faiblesses et ainsi prévenir les pannes. Ils viennent en complément des hélicoptères et permettent de s’approcher au plus près et de voir ainsi les choses plus en détail, relate La Nouvelle République ce vendredi 2 avril… lire l’article
RTBF – 01.04.2021 – L’objectif est d’évaluer comment des drones peuvent augmenter la sûreté, la sécurité et l’efficience des opérations aéroportuaires. Deux journées de test, mercredi et jeudi, sont prévues pour examiner les possibilités et les procédures opérationnelles d’un drone de sécurité. Le test se fait en collaboration avec Citymesh, opérateur de drones. La particularité de l’engin éprouvé est de pouvoir être piloté à grande distance, via le réseau 5G de l’aéroport: pour le test, le pilote se trouvait ainsi à Bruges. Les simulations sont des rondes d’inspection et de surveillance du domaine aéroportuaire, l’intervention sur les lieux d’un incident aérien et des inspections visant les animaux présents sur l’aéroport qui peuvent représenter un danger pour l’atterrissage ou le décollage des avions… lire l’article
UST drone – 02.04.2021 – Schiebel has been awarded another contract by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to provide its CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS (unmanned aerial system) for ship emission monitoring and general maritime surveillance for EU member states. The scope of this new contract includes monitoring the sulphur content of ships’ emissions to ensure compliance with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) sulphur emission limits from seagoing vessels, as well as maritime situational awareness for coastal authorities. In addition to this contract, Schiebel is also currently fulfilling another under which it provides EMSA and local authorities in Croatia and Finland with maritime surveillance services… lire l’article
UAS weekly – 05.04.2021 – Pipelines often cross inaccessible terrain to supply industrial and domestic gas. Operators of these networks must ensure the safety, integrity and reliability of their pipelines but accurate detection of odorless and invisible gas leaks can be challenging and expensive. ABB’s latest addition to its ABB Ability™ Mobile Gas Leak Detection System, HoverGuard™, provides the solution by finding leaks faster and more reliably than ever before. HoverGuard detects, quantifies and maps leaks up to 100 meters from natural gas distribution and transmission pipelines, gathering lines, storage facilities, and other potential sources quickly, safely and reliably. It automatically generates comprehensive digital reports that summarize results and can be shared in minutes after a survey… lire l’article
Sputnik – 04.04.2021 – Des drones russes Inokhodets ont frappé des cibles terroristes en Syrie dont les coordonnées avaient été détectées et transmises par les systèmes portables de reconnaissance Strelets-M, a confié à Sputnik une source au sein de la Défense. Les militaires russes déployés en Syrie ont testé la nouvelle technologie des drones de combat en matière de ciblage, laquelle fonctionne à l’aide d’un complexe portable de reconnaissance Strelets-M, a fait savoir à Sputnik une source au sein de l’industrie militaire russe… lire l’article
National Interest – 01.04.2021 – On August 7, 2019 the Russian Ministry of Defense released a video showing the first flight, five days earlier, of a prototype stealth drone called Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B. The flying-wing drone circled for twenty minutes around two thousand feet above the Chkalov State Flight Test Center in Astrakhan (near the Caspian Sea) before coming down for a landing. Okhotnik, which means “Hunter,” is a large flying… lire l’article
TRT – 27.03.2021 – Le troisième prototype (Akinci PT-3) du drone d’assaut Bayraktar Akinci (TIHA) a achevé avec succès son premier vol. »Nous ne pouvions garder plus longtemps au sol Akinci PT-3. Il a effectué avec succès son premier vol aujourd’hui », a affirmé le directeur technique de Baykar Selcuk Bayraktar dans un message posté sur son compte Twitter… lire l’article
Janes – 01.04.2021 – The United Kingdom is acquiring a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) under its Second Operating Location Alternate Reaper (SOLAR) requirement. Announced by the US Department of Defense (DoD) on 30 March, the USD12.9 million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract covers a single Block 1 Reaper medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) UAV, a Lynx synthetic aperture radar (SAR), embedded Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS), and “UK specific modifications”. The Reaper is slated for delivery to the UK by 1 July… lire l’article
UAS weekly – 02.04.2021 – Automatic processing of drone photos according to AASHTO standards while finding and prioritizing relevant defects in just several hours is a technological breakthrough that immediately enables bridge engineers to dramatically increase the benefits and value of each drone inspection. Dynamic Infrastructure’s image processing and AI platform automatically analyzes drone photos collected during bridge inspections. The goal is clear – providing inspection engineers a quick and accurate analysis of the captured drone visuals for approval and maintenance recommendations… lire l’article
CNews – 03.04.2021 – A partir de samedi, Nice déploie les grands moyens pour réguler la population grandissante de ces volatiles qui génèrent des nuisances notamment dans le centre-ville. Pour Pâques, la capitale azuréenne chasse les œufs… des goélands. Un drone de repérage est d’abord utilisé pour inspecter les toits où des nids ont été signalés par les habitants. Si un nid avec des œufs ou des œufs sont repérés, le drone de stérilisation projette sur ces œufs un produit bloquant l’oxygénation et stoppant son développement… lire l’article
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