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 [...]
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