This week has seen several announces evidencing that the UAV market is going through game changing transformation:
The Boeing Company unveiled the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system, a demonstrator that will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days. Phantom Eye is powered by two 2.3-liter, four-cylinder engines that provide 150 horsepower each. [...]
The Boeing Company announced acquisition of Argon ST for approximately $775 million. The agreement to acquire Argon ST, a leading developer of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) and combat systems, advances Boeing’s growth strategy and expands the company’s capabilities to address the C4ISR, cyber and intelligence markets.
DARPA awarded $33 million contract (the program codename is KQ-X) to Northrop Grumman Corporation to demonstrate aerial refueling of a NASA Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by a sister ship. Northrop Grumman will retrofit two of the high altitude long endurance (HALE) UAVs for completely autonomous aerial refueling, with one aircraft pumping fuel [...]
The United States released newly declassified details about its nuclear stockpile. As of September 30 the United States had 5,113 warheads in its nuclear weapons stockpile. It its largest in the end of 1967 there was 31,255 warheads. In 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell, the United States had 22,217 warheads. These figures represent [...]
Upper Image: RG32M mine hardened patrol vehicle operated by Swedish forces in the snow and now also deployed and coping with the harsh heat of Afghanistan
Bottom Image: BAE Systems M113E3 vehicle in snow.
The BAE Systems has won a contract to supply 16 RG32M mine-hardened patrol vehicles to the Finland Defence Force, worth more than [...]
In a recently released Budget 2010 the Canadian Government announces its intention to restrain overall growth in defense spending. The section of the Budget 2010 titled “Restraining Growth in National Defence Spending” says:
“In recent years, the Government has made major, necessary investments in the country’s military capabilities in support of the Canada First Defence Strategy, [...]
The German economy contracted by 5 percent in 2009, the largest reduction in Germany’s post-war history. In 2010 Germany plans a record debt – 80 Billion Euro ($110 billion), twice the amount borrowed in 2009. One of the fallouts of the economy crisis is a drastic reduction of funds for European defense projects [...]
These are conclusions of the report released yesterday by parliament’s Committee of Public Accounts.
“The Major Projects Report 2009 is the latest in a long running series of reports examining the record of the Ministry of Defence (the Department) in meeting cost, time and performance targets for its top military equipment projects which are expected to [...]
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a defense contractor and manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars, and surveillance systems, has announced that its Predator®-series UAS has reached the one million flight hours mark. Predator-series UAVs are in constant daily operations supporting the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department [...]
The first flight of the Global Hawk UAV on NASA Mission over the Pacific Ocean has been successfully completed. The flight is the first of five NASA planned missions to study atmospheric science over the Pacific and Arctic oceans.
NASA-sponsored UAV program is just a small part of a broad U.S. government initiatives to keep [...]
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