The U.S. Navy intends to use the U.S. Army's Ground Based Sense and Avoid system aboard the Boeing-built MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial tanker, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.
Read More »Army Eyes New Acquisition Strategy for Lightweight Precision Munitions
The U.S. Army is exploring new approaches to procure lightweight precision munitions that can integrate with unmanned aircraft systems as the service branch faces a shortage of weapons and equipment for theater operations, Defense News reported Saturday. The report said the Army also seeks to increase its munitions stockpile and …
Read More »Army’s Universal Mission Simulator Helps Train UAS Flight Crews
The U.S. Army uses a full-simulation platform to augment live flight training for unmanned aircraft system crews and help reduce costs and risks at the service branch’s aviation and missile research, development and engineering center. The Universal Mission Simulator is designed to train flight crews on how to operate Gray Eagle and Shadow functions such as launch, preflight, taxi, flight route, target …
Read More »Report: Army to Conduct Flight Demo for Future Tactical UAS
The U.S. Army plans to hold a flight demonstration of tactical unmanned aircraft systems that could replace the service branch’s Shadow and Gray Eagle UAS, Defense News reported Thursday. Layne Merritt, a chief engineer at the Army’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, told the publication that the Army looks to …
Read More »Army to Send Gray Eagle UAS for Korean Peninsula ISR
The U.S. Army has moved to deploy a military unmanned aerial system group in South Korea to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions on the Korean Peninsula. Army’s 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade will oversee the Gray Eagle UAS unit at Kunsan air base, U.S. Forces Korea said Sunday. Stars and Stripes reported …
Read More »US Army Begins Test for Sense-and-Avoid Radar System; John Innes Comments
The U.S. Army has tested a radar-based system for unmanned aerial vehicles at at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah as part of an effort to help military operators fly UAS in civilian airspace. The Army’s project manager of unmanned aircraft systems led the testing and two Gray Eagles were positioned on …
Read More »Maj. Gen. Clayton Hutmacher: Army Special Ops Command Wants Runway Independent UAS
Maj. Gen. Clayton Hutmacher, deputy commander of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, has said USASOC wants an unmanned aerial system that it can launch and recover without the use of runways, Defense News reported Monday. Jen Judson writes the command has used Gray Eagle and Shadow drones to perform intelligence, surveillance …
Read More »Brig. Gen. Erik Peterson: Army Needs Multi-Intelligence UAS for Special Operations
The U.S. Army aims to build an unmanned aircraft system that would employ multiple sensors for gathering of intelligence during special operations, Defense News reported Thursday. Jen Judson writes Brig. Gen. Erik Peterson, head of the Army’s Special Operations Command, told audience at an Association of the United States Army-hosted forum …
Read More »Viva Kelley: Army Testing Ground-Based UAS Radar System for Future Expansion
The Defense Department and Federal Aviation Administration are working with partners to push forward technology such as the Ground-Based Sense-and-Avoid radar to help manage the airspace for unmanned aircraft systems, Defense Systems reported Dec. 23. David Walsh writes that Viva Kelley, product director at the U.S. Army‘s Unmanned Systems Airspace Integration Concepts, has pointed to …
Read More »Army Test Flies Unmanned Airborne EW Attack System; Clay Ogden Comments
The U.S. Army has completed a series of flight tests onan unmanned airborne electronic attack platform in order to assess its technical capability to deploy jammer to another aerial system. The Army conducted the testing for the Gray Eagle unmanned system-fixed Networked Electronic Warfare Remotely Operated from June 2 to June 19 within …
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