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Fire Scout Completes First Autonomous Ship Landings

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman Corporation wrote a new chapter in naval aviation history January 16-17, when two RQ-8A Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) completed nine autonomous shipboard landings on board USS Nashville (LPD 13) off the coast of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.

This test marks the first time a Navy UAV has performed vertical landings on a moving ship without a pilot controlling the aircraft. The RQ-8A is a test version of the newer MQ-8B Fire Scout being developed by Northrop Grumman for the Navy and the U.S. Army. The MQ-8B Fire Scout is the aircraft element of a complete system called the Vertical takeoff and landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) system.

After it was launched from the naval air station, the Fire Scout flew to the designated test area, where the USS Nashville was waiting for the air vehicle to land and take off under its own control. The flight was monitored from a ship-based control station called a tactical control system, and the air vehicle was guided onto the ship using an unmanned air vehicle common automatic recovery system.

The Navy plans to use Fire Scout on board the Littoral Combat Ship, where sailors will operate both manned and unmanned helicopters to support operational requirements. Northrop-Grumman's Integrated Systems sector is developing and producing 12 MQ-8B Fire Scout UAVs; four for the Navy and eight for the Army.

Fire Scout will provide the warfighter with real-time video imagery and provide communications-relay capability. The weapons-capable air vehicle, which can fly missions more than eight hours long, will also help warfighters assess battle damage, provide precision targeting and gather intelligence.

Chao

Bell's Eagle Eye Tilt-Rotor UAV Achieves First Flight Milestone

La noticia completa:
http://www.shephard.co.uk/UVOnline/Default.aspx?Action=-187126550&ID=cb250d44-c340-4279-9093-4cfa90a3c4a5

Chao

CIA beefs killer drone force

Jan. 30th, 2006

Despite protests from other nations, the United States is expanding a top-secret effort to kill suspected terrorists with drone-fired missiles as it pursues an increasingly decentralized al-Qaeda.

A failed January 13 bid to assassinate al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman Zawahiri in Pakistan was the latest strike in the "targeted killing" program, a classified initiative that officials say has broadened as the network splintered and fled Afghanistan.

The strike against Zawahiri killed as many as 18 civilians, many of them women and children, and triggered protests in Pakistan. Similar US attacks using unmanned Predator aircraft equipped with Hellfire missiles have angered citizens and political leaders in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen.

Noticia completa:
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=10999&sid=6456022&con_type=1

Chao

al final se arna competiciones de escuadrones de ucav de un pais contra los de otro pais como un campeonato del mundo aver quien tiene los mejores ucav

Igual que ahora se trata de haber quién tiene el mejor avión (pilotado)

Sólo comentar que aunque acabo de escribir un mensaje largo en Off-topic (porque coincidí­a así­), lo que digo le vendrí­a muy bien a este tema, así­ que los interesados que le echen un vistazo

alguien ha visto la amenaza invisible? es una peli mu wapa, salio el año pasado yo la vi jiji xDD

Aqui os dejo unos trailer para q flipeis:

http://www.quedetrailers.com/trailers1592.htm

Ah, OK, ya veo que ya andas por aquí­ (por lo que te comenté en Off-topic )

jaja esta tarde me dio por entrar en fuerzas aereas y vi el tema de los Ucav, de toas maneras gracias por avisar, suelo frecuentar mas off-topic o defensa xD

miren q juguetes mas bonitos
q bandera tiene el bichito ese? veo bien? jeje

Un favor si te pido, Nadie. Si pones fotos de "objetos voladores" no muy conocidos, pon el nombre, que se queda uno a dos velas

Los suecos me sonaban, pero el alemán no. Y de todos modos no me acuerdo del nombre de los suecos, así­ que...

Un saludo

El "bichito" ese lleva la bandera española???q pasa q estamos desarrollando algun en comun??? ya te digo Nadie, informacion, ya

Saludos Kamaradas

¡ Ostras, Gunter, es verdad !
¡Información, Nadie, o quien sea!

Es el Barrakuda, parece ser que lo financian Alemania, España y puede ser que Suiza también esté metida. Y hasta el 26 de enero el común de los mortales no conocí­an su existencia. Hay rumores de que el primer vuelo será en febrero y se hará en España, pero Janes no da credibilidad a estos rumores. Por cierto, las fotos no son oficiales y EADS no ha confirmado nada.

Una vista desde atrás.

UCAV Barrakuda

Barrakuda UCAV takes first steps

http://www.janes.com/defence/air_forces ... _1_n.shtml

By Damian Kemp Jane's Aviation Desk Editor
London

EADS' little-known Barrakuda unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) underwent taxiing tests at the company's Munich site on 26 January, ahead of planned flight tests.

The programme - funded by Germany, Spain (with their flags shown on the tails) and possibly Switzerland - has remained largely secretive with little detail available.


http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,396450,00.html


Air Force examines secret flight drone

The business lures arms companies with unmanned flight drones, as it uses the CIA for the terrorist hunt. Now Air Force boss stieglitz visited for the first time the secret flier, with whom the European EADS wants to make the American competition.

Hamburg - strict shielded from the public presented the arms company EADS of Luftwaffe the secret forerunner model of an unmanned reconnaissance drone. After information MIRROR was allowed Air Force boss lieutenant general Klaus-Peter Stieglitz past week in the Bavarian Manching, where EADS builds the "Eurofighter" and a test site maintains the German Federal Armed Forces, which secret fliers visit named "Barracuda".

The remote controlled equipment serves for the time being the testing of new technologies and might start already in February - at a separated place on the iberischen peninsula - to the first flight. "Barracuda" is developed as reconnaissance aircraft, could be high-prepared later in addition, for the fighter plane. Model are US drones like the "Predator", a reconnaissance airplane, which is equipped with "Hellfire" rockets and used by the secret service CIA for attacks on presumed terrorists.

The EADS sees so far from the USA and Israel dominated business with unmanned aircraft as promising growth market and the project "Barracuda" therefore to a large extent financed. Swiss the defense department made a small contribution. Because the Air Force would like to replace their well 20 years old "Tornado" Aufklaerungsjets by unmanned fliers, the company hopes now for larger money gene from Berlin.

The roll-out was witnessed by German Air Force Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Klaus-Peter Stieglitz. Media reports said the first flight would take place in February near Cadiz in Spain but JDW understands this is not the case.

Pues gracias por a todos por aclarar el tema. tiene muy buena pinta, xa q luego digan q no nos movemos

Saludos Kamaradas