Posted on : 27-04-2010 | By : Ed Herlik
Persistent surveillance (months or a year on-station above the Jet Stream) is the one apability that will significantly enhance the ability to combat an insurgency while minimizing troop risk and ground commitment.
Posted on : 20-04-2010 | By : Ed Herlik
A new market and technology analysis report, focusing on the Counter-Insurgency Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) market, forecasts a bright future for small, silent UAVs powered by long- endurance electric motors.
Posted on : 18-04-2010 | By : Ed Herlik
The just-ended annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado focused almost exclusively on space capabilities, as is its purpose. But among the satellite models, the full-scale space capsules, the extravehicular activity space suits, the anthropomorphic robots and the mounds of branded give-away goodies were a few Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images, models and real aircraft.
Posted on : 13-04-2010 | By : Ed Herlik
While most industry analysts foresee a steadily growing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) market, for the foreseeable future, a new report provides a triple scenario analysis showing growth as well as decline potentials, based on politics as much as on technology.
Posted on : 12-03-2010 | By : Ed Herlik
Integrating UAVs and existing border security resources into a coherent Operating Concept not only improve the overall effectiveness of such operations but also enhances sales of aerial and ground based platforms and payloads.
Posted on : 24-02-2010 | By : Ed Herlik
The border-state governor wants to see another Predator B UAV added to the three Predators that currently fly border security duty along the Arizona-Mexico border. Given the recent collapse of the US Border Patrol’s Secure Border Initiative virtual fence project, UAVs are more important than ever.
Posted on : 12-02-2010 | By : Ed Herlik
Swarms of inexpensive, very small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) may be more useful in some applications than many high flying, expensive UAV platforms.
Posted on : 02-02-2010 | By : Ed Herlik
Border security missions across the globe are undergoing a rapid change to accommodate and make use of new technologies, communications, and integration capabilities, enabled greatly by the introduction of new mission-specific UAVs