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Notapor champi el Mié May 26, 2010 8:49 pm

Apuntamos dos nuevos. Uno que funciona con enchufe, el ETOP de IAI: http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... esign.html
By Arie Egozi

Israel Aerospace Industries is developing a new line of hovering air vehicles for military and civilian applications, with its first system dubbed the electric tethered observation platform (ETOP).

The electric-powered tethered platform will be used for observation and other applications and can be deployed from a fixed station or moving ground vehicle.

Although hovering vehicles are usually hindered by having to carry a heavy energy source, the ETOP gets around this problem by leaving such equipment on the ground.

The platform's propellers can be used to hover at a predetermined altitude above ground for long periods, with endurance limited only by the ground platform's energy storage capability.

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IAI says the design can carry a payload of up to 20kg (44lb) to a maximum altitude of 328ft (100m), and does not need an operator.

The first prototype of the ETOP system has completed its first 10 flight tests, while a second is also now in use. The system will be operational by 2011.

Y otro con hidrógeno, el Global Observer de Aero Vironment: http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... light.html
By Alex Derber

The first AeroVironment Global Observer unmanned aircraft has completed ground testing before its first flight.

The unmanned aircraft system is designed to stay aloft continuously for between five and seven days, providing "ultra-persistent" communications and surveillance coverage.

After system trials in March and April, Aircraft 1 most recently performed taxi tests at Edwards AFB, California. These confirmed its autonomous propulsion, datalink operation, steering and braking, the company says.

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Once fully operational, Global Observer's eight wing-mounted engines are to be powered by liquid hydrogen fuel cells.

Initial flight-testing, however, will consist of low-altitude battery-powered flights to evaluate airworthiness and handling qualities.

After this is complete, surveillance and communication payloads will be loaded for testing.

Six US government agencies have contributed $120 million to the joint capability technology demonstration programme under which Global Observer is being developed.
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Re: Aviones sin piloto (UAV, UCAV, drone)

Notapor Orel el Jue May 27, 2010 12:45 am

El primero se parece un poco a éste (curiosidad):
http://www.fogonazos.es/2010/04/cuadric ... jamar.html
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Re: Aviones sin piloto (UAV, UCAV, drone)

Notapor champi el Jue Jun 10, 2010 8:10 pm

EADS todaví­a confí­a en el Talarion: http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... oller.html
By Craig Hoyle

EADS remains committed to its Talarion unmanned air vehicle project, despite the lack of a clear signal from intended operators France, Germany and Spain about their requirements and funding priorities, says Stefan Zoller, chief executive of the company's Defence & Security business unit.

A suspended full-scale model of the 28m (91.8ft) wing span Talarion dominates the EADS display in hall 7, and confirms the company's ongoing determination to deliver the system, the D&S boss says. "Our future is defined by unmanned systems, and here is the next generation," he adds.

Zoller earlier this year warned that the programme's potential buyers would have to firm up their requirements by this summer if the company was to continue its work after conducting a preliminary design review.

But speaking to Flight Daily News, a bullish Zoller said: "This programme is best in class. There is no reason for us to not go full speed ahead. We have to wait while they finalise their budgets. You won't get straightforward answers on any programme just now."

Powered by two jet engines and to fly at altitudes up to 50,000ft, the Talarion has been designed to meet Europe's future requirements for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The company expects the development and production of 15 systems to cost up to €3 billion ($3.5 billion).

Mientras Francia y RU lanzan un estudio conjunto para un MALE: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i= ... =EUR&s=AIR
By PIERRE TRAN
Published: 9 Jun 2010 17:55

Paris - Britain and France are launching joint technology studies for developing a European medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) surveillance drone, said Eric Trappier, international director for Dassault Aviation.

"The British and French authorities are financing feasibility studies," he told journalists June 9. A decision was taken by the high-level working group that coordinates common defense research-and-technology projects between the two countries, he said.

The United Kingdom has approved funding for the European MALE study project and France is expected to follow shortly, Trappier said.

Britain and France are natural partners to pursue a European MALE UAV program, given the operational needs of their armed forces, which are deployed in Afghanistan, and the apparent willingness of London to cooperate with Paris, he said.

"The political climate is rather good," Trappier said. "Cooperation is political," he said. "One chooses a strategic partner."

The interest in developing a European MALE UAV emerged as Trappier and Pierre-Eric Pommelet, Thales senior vice president for defense mission systems, argued against a prospective purchase by France of the U.S. Predator B, known as the Reaper MQ-9, from General Atomics.

A short-term acquisition of Predator had grave long-term consequences for French and European industry, which needed support for their design and engineering teams, the executives said.

The purchase of an American drone "would be astonishing," as it would go against the French white paper on defense and national security, Trappier said. "Industrial issues are at stake. Strategic issues at stake."

Dassault and Thales teamed up with Indra and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to make an offer in May 2008 to France and Spain of the Systí¨me de Drone MALE (SDM). The system is based on the Heron TP air vehicle from IAI.

EADS, meanwhile, has said the company would end its funding of studies on the Talarion Advanced UAV this summer if a development contract from France, Germany and Spain failed to materialize. That system is intended as an autonomous European UAV program.

The French procurement office Direction Générale pour l'Armement estimates Talarion could be delivered around 2018-20, at a cost of 1.4 billion euros ($1.67 billion), a parliamentary report published in December 2008 said.

EADS France would work on the Talarion payload, EADS Germany on the air vehicle.

But the French Air Force wants a MALE UAV in service as soon as possible, ideally from 2012 to 2015. The service operates two Harfang interim MALE air vehicles from EADS in Afghanistan, a third is used for training in France and the fourth is under repair in Israel.
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French procurement head Laurent Collet-Billon is due to meet General Atomics executives during a visit to Washington June 15, when he meets his American counterpart, Ashton Carter.

A French Air Force official said, "I have requirements," when asked why Predator was the leading candidate.

Por su parte, Italia recibirá su primer Reaper el mes que viene: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i= ... =AME&s=AIR
By TOM KINGTON
Published: 9 Jun 2010 13:01

ROME - The first two of six unarmed MQ-9 Reaper UAVs that Italy has sought to order will be delivered in July, an Italian Air Force source said June 9.

A U.S. source who has knowledge of the deal added that the UAVs, plus ground stations and support equipment, could be flown by cargo aircraft directly from California to the Reapers' base in Puglia in southern Italy.

Two more Reapers will be delivered by the end of 2010, the Italian Air Force source said. The delivery schedule has slipped. Italian officials previously said they aimed to take delivery of the first Reapers by the end of 2009.

In addition to an order for four Reapers, Italy said last October it would seek to order an extra two to beef up its UAV surveillance capability in Afghanistan.

Italy purchased four Predators before placing an order for an additional two upgraded versions.

The Italian Air Force wants to have two UAVs ready to fly at all times in Afghanistan, or one permanently flying. Officials have said they would like to dispatch the first Reaper to Afghanistan by year's end.
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Re: Aviones sin piloto (UAV, UCAV, drone)

Notapor Orel el Vie Jun 11, 2010 3:03 am

Indra presenta en Eurosatory sus proyectos de VTUAV Pelí­cano, UAV Albatros y mini-UAV Mantis:
Indra presenta a nivel internacional el helicóptero no tripulado Pelí­cano en Eurosatory

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10/06/2010 (Infodefensa.com) Madrid - Indra acude a Eurosatory 2010, dentro del Pabellón español, con sus últimos avances en sistemas de Seguridad y Defensa en vehí­culos no tripulados, defensa áerea, tecnologí­as para responder a amenazas NRBQ, así­ como sus últimos desarrollos en soluciones de defensa electrónica y simulación de vuelo.

La multinacional española aprovechará la feria parisina, entre el 14 y 18 de junio, para presentar a nivel internacional el helicóptero no tripulado Pelí­cano.

Este vehí­culo no tripulado ha sido diseñado para operar bajo los requisitos de cualquier Marina y, según la compañí­a estará operativo en 2012. Entre sus caracterí­sticas se encuentra su capacidad para operar las 24 horas del dí­a durante periodos prolongados de hasta un mes.

Junto al Pelí­cano, Indra exhibirá en Parí­s el UAV táctico basado en aeronaves de ala fija Albhatros y el sistema de mini-UAVs Mantis.

Relacionado con UAV está el sistema IFF de identificación amigo-enemigo que la empresa ha desarrollado para adaptarse a las exigencias de estos vehí­culos. Indra ya lo ha implantando en plataformas como el Eurofighter o el A400M, así­ como plataformas terrestres.

Otra de las soluciones destacadas en el stand de la tecnológica será la familia de radares Lanza 3D, que responden a las exigencias fijadas por la OTAN. Estos sistemas forman la espina dorsal de la Red de Alerta Aérea Temprana española y están operativos en paí­ses como Uruguay y Portugal.
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Re: Aviones sin piloto (UAV, UCAV, drone)

Notapor Orel el Sab Jun 12, 2010 8:04 pm

Y también en Eurosatory presenta la española UAV Navigation su Sniper XL (gracias a Iris del FMG):
Vidal, compañero, ¿qué nos cuentas?

Presentación mundial del "Sniper XL" , en el salón internacional Eurosatory

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El SNIPER XL presentado mundialmente

En el marco de su polí­tica de expansión internacional, UAV Navigation, empresa española lí­der en el diseño y fabricación de equipos de aviónica, acude por vez primera al salón Eurosatory, compartiendo stand con su firma vinculada Alpha Unmanned Systems, especializada en el desarrollo de aeronaves no tripuladas, que mostrará públicamente, por vez primera, su más novedosa plataforma, el Sniper XL.

Nacida con el apoyo de UAV Navigation, Alpha Unmanned Systems, que ha marcado un hito con sus desarrollos en el ámbito de las aeronaves no tripuladas AVTOL (Automatic Vertical Take Off Landing), helicópteros de reducidas dimensiones y enormes capacidades, expondrá en Eurosatory tres de sus modelos de aeronaves no tripuladas: Comando, Sniper y el novedoso Sniper XL.

Las posibilidades del helicóptero no tripulado Sniper XL en el ámbito de la defensa y la seguridad son enormes. Con unas dimensiones de 2 metros de largo por 2,5 de ancho (longitud de las palas del rotor), un peso máximo al despegue de 25 kg y carga de pago de 5 kg, el Sniper XL está preparado para portar una cámara dual, de identificación térmica y visual, lo que convierte a esta aeronave, dotada de todas las ventajas de operación en cuanto al despegue y aterrizaje que permite un helicóptero de estas dimensiones, en un UAV único para labores de vigilancia. La cámara dual permite no sólo identificar al objetivo térmicamente, sino, gracias a la opción visual, ofrecer su imagen real, identificando a cualquier sujeto perfectamente por sus rasgos fí­sicos.

El Sniper XL ha sido desarrollado a partir del Sniper, que con sus 15 kilos de peso y despegue rápido, tiene capacidad de medio alcance, en torno a 20 o 30 Km. Permite ir al campo de batalla y dar perfectamente las coordinadas precisas del objetivo. A nivel civil, para misiones de vigilancia marí­tima es un vehí­culo perfecto, no sólo rastrea la zona, que se observarí­a tranquilamente desde un despacho a golpe de ratón, detectando cualquier naví­o o persona y ofreciendo el punto exacto en que se encuentra, las coordenadas precisas.
El manejo es tan sencillo y tanta su efectividad que no admite comparaciones: una antena, un portátil y el pequeño helicóptero, nada más. Muestra del amplio abanico de misiones a que puede destinarse, es el actual proyecto con Iberdrola para la inspección de tendidos eléctricos.

Junto a estos dos helicópteros no tripulados, en Eurosatory se mostrará también el Comando, un helicóptero eléctrico autónomo que está siendo utilizado por las fuerzas de operaciones especiales de policí­a y ejércitos.

Muy silencioso, está destinado a observar a muy corto alcance sin ser visto, la ventaja del helicóptero es que despega y aterriza desde cualquier sitio. En los actuales escenarios bélicos en operaciones urbanas no tiene competencia en cuanto a su efectividad, puede despegar desde el techo de un vehí­culo y ser enviado al área que debe reconocerse, sobrevuela las calles, realiza un reconocimiento completo y regresa para aterrizar en el mismo techo desde el que despegó.

Por su parte, UAV Navigation mostrará en el salón de la defensa francés sus pilotos automáticos para aeronaves no tripuladas, que la han hecho merecedora de la confianza de los grandes fabricantes de este tipo de aeronaves en todo el mundo. El AP04 de la empresa española es un autopiloto de reducidas dimensiones para UAV de ala fija y helicópteros, que permite el despegue y aterrizaje automático, realizar el plan de vuelo de manera completamente autónoma y que es capaz de controlar gran variedad de cargas de pago.

Junto a éste, la empresa mostrará su último desarrollo, el AP040EM2, el piloto más pequeño y ligero del mundo, con un peso de tan solo 20 gramos, que hereda el diseño de la arquitectura y fiabilidad del AP04. Es una solución perfecta para los diseñadores de sistemas que necesiten integrar en sus equipos aviónica miniaturizada. Puede ser utilizado en diversas aplicaciones, desde el control de mini UAVs eléctricos, hasta la giro-estabilización y geo-referencia de cargas de pago. AP04OEM2 es la solución ideal para los diseñadores de sistemas EFIS que buscan un paquete de sensores. Suministra la posición, trayectoria, velocidad aerodinámica, altitud, posición, velocidad horizontal y vertical, así­ como otras variables que, gracias a su pequeño tamaño, pueden ser fácilmente integradas según las necesidades de cada cliente.

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Re: Aviones sin piloto (UAV, UCAV, drone)

Notapor champi el Lun Jun 14, 2010 7:26 pm

Respecto al culebrón Talarion, ahora parece que británicos y franceses lo están discutiendo: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i= ... =FEA&s=CVS
By ANDREW CHUTER and PIERRE TRAN
Published: 14 June 2010

Britain and France have moved a step closer to collaborating on the development of a next-generation medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAV.

MALE Potential: The Talarion by EADS is among the candidates to fill medium-altitude, long-endurance requirement under the British Scavenger program. (EADS)

The potential partners are about halfway through a three-month study into whether a collaborative approach is possible, a British Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokeswoman said.

"The work will assess the two nations' requirements, arrive at a top-level system concept and identify a way to manage future work," she said.

The proposed collaboration is one way Britain might fulfill the requirements of its Scavenger effort to find future MALE capabilities. Industry sources say potential candidate UAVs include the EADS Talarion, a development of BAE Systems' Mantis, and future versions of the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper MALE aircraft operated by the British military. Mantis and Talarion could form the basis for Britain's collaboration with France and possibly other European nations.
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France, for its part, intends to choose a MALE UAV as a short-term gapfiller this summer, a French government official said.
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Indeed, Europe's two biggest defense spenders are moving closer together across a range of equipment and military requirements. The two sides already have agreed upon a joint research and technology road map for UAVs, part of a 100 million euro ($121 million) pot earmarked for various projects. The French authorities are seriously exploring the possibility of purchasing the Reaper as a short-term buy to meet operational requirements.
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But Dassault and Thales argue that those near-term needs could be met by the SDM, which the French companies teamed up with Indra of Spain and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to offer to France and Spain in May 2008. They say a package of three control stations and nine UAVs would cost less than 1 billion euros and could be delivered in 2015 if a decision is made next year.

Pommelet said the SDM, which is based in IAI's Heron TP UAV, would carry a European payload, including a synthetic aperture radar with a range of more than 100 kilometers, a moving target indicator radar, a secure data link for communications with ground troops, and a satellite uplink for remote pilot control. The SDM could handle communications, electronic and signals intelligence missions, he said.

The Heron TP has been offered under lease to the French government as part of a map to long-term procurement, Trappier said.
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If the two governments launch a joint UAV program, BAE Systems and Dassault would be natural partners, while Thales France and Thales UK would be well-placed to take part in that collaboration, Trappier said.

Other partners could join, but there would have to be a clear prime contractor. Depending on where the funding comes from, Dassault or BAE would lead the program. The choice of industry leader would flow from the political decision on financing.

French and European industry need a decision, Trappier said. Morale is a factor in industry, as the design engineers are anxious to know what the future has in store.

Y para meter un poco de presión, EADS dice que está dispuesta a prefinanciarlo si se toma una decisión en positivo: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/ ... el=defense
Jun 14, 2010
By Robert Wall

To help build support for its Talarion medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) UAV program during Europe's difficult budget period, EADS is offering to pre-finance the development of the system if it gets a purchase commitment from its target customers that they will buy the surveillance and reconnaissance tool.

EADS has been designing Talarion with its own funds in order to expand its expertise in this area, and has tried to generate political backing for the project in Germany, France and Spain. But customers have been reluctant to sign on. While German government officials have indicated support for an initiative to build home-grown UAV capacity — a business dominated by Israeli and U.S. firms — France and Spain have been less enthusiastic. What's more, rival concepts exist in those countries, and bidders there argue that the governments should focus on system and payload development, not the air vehicle.

Still, EADS hopes that Talarion will move forward. Bernhard Gerwert, the head of EADS Military Air Systems, says Turkey has been briefed and may join the undertaking, with Turkish companies also being brought on board.

Workshare also has been a point of discussion; Thales, for example, is unhappy with its role and the level of radar work. But Gerwert argues that as the design has been refined, the work allocation is now equally split, with a third available to companies in Germany, Spain and France. The allocation would be further adjusted if Turkey joins.
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How much longer EADS will be willing to support Talarion without a clear path to market is uncertain. Gerwert suggests the company is still upbeat but will not be able to pursue the project forever.

Pero parece que en caso de decidirse por un MALE va a tener serias dificultades presupuestarias: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/de ... d=blogDest
Posted by Michael A. Taverna at 6/14/2010 11:40 AM CDT

The French defense ministry is going to have to find up to 5 billion euros in cost savings and non-budget revenues to keep its multi-year spending plan from unraveling.
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One already pinpointed is the Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance UAV requirement. Collet-Billon was due to leave today to discuss the procurement of General Atomics Predators to complement three EADS Harfang UAVs currently in Afghanistan, provided suitable technology transfer and conditions of utilization can be negotiated. A requirement for a medium-range antiarmor missile, expected to emerge in 2015, may be among other development initiatives that could be sacrificed, industry officials say.
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Some rollbacks in current production programs can also be expected. Morin said France still does not intend to reduce its purchase of A400M airlifters, although this is not totally excluded. However, other purchases, such as a planned buy of 200 Meteor beyond-the-horizon missiles, might be affected.

Desde luego sin Francia la cosa es poco menos que imposible...
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Re: Aviones sin piloto (UAV, UCAV, drone)

Notapor Orel el Mar Jun 15, 2010 10:12 pm

Sobre el mini-UAV Mantis y el VTUAV Pelicano que Indra ha presentado recientemente en Eurosatory (no encuentro el equivalente para el UAV Albatros):

http://www.indracompany.com/sites/defau ... is_Esp.pdf

http://www.indracompany.com/sites/defau ... NO_Esp.pdf
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Notapor champi el Dom Jun 20, 2010 8:15 am

Alenia continúa el desarrollo del Sky-Y, con la cuarta campaña de vuelos de prueba: http://www.defpro.com/news/details/16166/
16:10 GMT, June 18, 2010 Rome | The Sky-Y, Alenia Aeronautica's UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) technological demonstrator, has successfully accomplished - at the Italian Air Force's air base in Decimomannu, Sardinia - its first flight with a Flight Control System wholly developed by Alenia Aeronautica in collaboration with Alenia SIA (Alenia Aeronautica's owned company).

During this test campaign Alenia Aeronautica will experiment the new E-FCS (Experimental-FCS), which is a prototype of a system including an avionic computer, several sensors (inertial, air data, GPS) and electrical actuators for the primary and secondary flight controls. The system complies with the recent aeronautical certification rules and with the most advanced technical and industrial directives for this kind of equipments, regarding both hardware and software. As a matter of fact, the control laws introducing the rationale for the remote and automated aircraft's control have been developed entirely by Alenia Aeronautica.

The Sky-Y aircraft is at its fourth flight-test campaign and it is envisaged it will complete its testing programme by the end of July 2010, with 15 long-endurance flights. This is the first flight campaign taking place at the Decimomannu air base in Sardinia, thanks to the precious collaboration with the Ministry of Defence and the Italian Air Force.
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During this flight-test campaign Alenia Aeronautica will assess also the correct integration on the aircraft of systems developed by other Finmeccanica companies such as the EOST45, a high performance passive Electro-Optical Surveillance and Tracking system developed by SELEX Galileo, a new Wide-Band Data-Link developed by SELEX Communications, a powerful and reliable equipment for the satellite data-link of Telespazio, whose use has been granted to Alenia Aeronautica, within a cooperation agreement, by the Civil Protection Agency of the Piedmont Region.

The Sky-Y has been designed and built as a demonstrator of integration capabilities and innovative technologies developed by Alenia Aeronautica in the field of long endurance and autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems, such as:

• systems for autonomous on-board control and for the Ground Control Station, reliable and certifiable for the use of an unmanned air vehicle and with the characteristics of a MALE - Medium Altitude Long Endurance

• low-consumption diesel propulsion, integration of surveillance sensors (capable of detecting and recognising also very small objects from long distances during day and night), high-capacity data-processing systems and the broad-band data-link (including satellite) to manage and distribute information to end-users on the ground.
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Re: Aviones sin piloto (UAV, UCAV, drone)

Notapor Orel el Lun Jun 21, 2010 4:06 pm

Champi puso esta noticia:
Respecto al culebrón Talarion, ahora parece que británicos y franceses lo están discutiendo:

Bien, pues nueva info sobre ese programa:

EADS DS reafirma su compromiso con el programa Talarion pese a la coyuntura económica

18/06/2010 (Infodefensa.com) Madrid
EADS Defence & Security reitera su compromiso con el programa del vehí­culo aéreo no tripulado Talarion, en el que participan a partes iguales Francia, Alemania y España, pese a las restricciones presupuestarias derivadas de la crisis económica.

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A raí­z de una información de Cinco Dí­as en la que se aludí­a a la posible congelación del programa por no conseguir los 1.500 millones de financiación para la fase de diseño y desarrollo antes del verano, según los plazos establecidos por el CEO de EADS Defence & Security, Stefan Zoller, EADS DS recuerda en un comunicado que Zoller ha comentado que "una firme decisión polí­tica sobre el desarrollo del Talarion es difí­cil en estos momentos, debido a las actuales restricciones en los presupuestos de defensa en Europa. Por lo tanto, mantendremos la prefinanciación", aunque "no podemos continuar la prefinanciación de forma indefinida".

Según la compañí­a, Talarion es el programa europeo para la próxima generación de sistemas de vehí­culos aéreos no tripulados (UAS) para satisfacer los requerimientos de Francia, Alemania y España en futuras misiones no tripuladas de vigilancia y reconocimiento de larga duración.

Con todo, según el citado diario económico, las necesidades de un UAV son apremiantes y se estima que el Talarion estarí­a listo en 2016, de ahí­ el posible interés de Francia en alternativas como el Predator de General Atomics o el SDM desarrollado por Thales, Dassault e IAI junto a Indra.

No obstante, en marzo de este año, el jefe del Estado Mayor del Aire, el general del Aire José Jiménez Ruiz afirmó en una entrevista con Jane's que como meta a medio plazo está la compra de un UAV de media altitud para la que el Talarion serí­a una "respuesta apropiada a medio-largo plazo a nuestras demandas".

El Talarion se contempla en la compañí­a como un medio para que Europa consiga autonomí­a en la capacidad de fabricación de la próxima generación de UAVs MALE, rompiendo la exclusividad que tienen en el mercado las plataformas norteamericanas e israelí­es. EADS DS calcula el Talarion creará 3.000 puestos de trabajo en España, paí­s que albergará la lí­nea de ensamblaje final, además de liderar el sistema de comunicaciones y el segmento terrestre del sistema.

http://www.infodefensa.com/esp/noticias ... %C3%B3mica
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Re: Aviones sin piloto (UAV, UCAV, drone)

Notapor urzainqui el Jue Jul 01, 2010 8:17 am

Saludos a todos, es mi primera y tí­mida intervención en este foro de RPA's, como parece que ahora les llaman.
cej1 No es mí­o este artí­culo http://www.maclittle.es/2010/06/30/quo-vadis-uav-listo/ :D pero está firmado por una persona muy docta en tecnologí­a aeronáutica. :cry: Aunque posiblemente la mayorí­a lo hayáis leí­do
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Notapor Orel el Jue Jul 01, 2010 1:06 pm

Gracias Urzainqui :wink:
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Notapor Orel el Lun Jul 05, 2010 1:55 am

Primer vuelo del EuroHawk el 29 de Junio:
Northrop Grumman and EADS Defence & Security's Euro Hawk(R) Unmanned Aircraft Completes Successful First Flight

June 30, 2010

The Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft system, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation and EADS Defence & Security, successfully completed its first flight June 29.

The high-flying aircraft took off at approximately 10:32 a.m. PDT from Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, Calif., manufacturing facility and climbed to 32,000 feet over Palmdale's desert skies before landing nearly two hours later at 12:24 p.m. PDT at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Based on the Block 20 Global Hawk, Euro Hawk® will be equipped with a new signals intelligence (SIGINT) mission system developed by EADS Defence & Security, providing standoff capability to detect electronic and communications emitters. A ground station consisting of a mission control and launch and recovery elements will be provided by Northrop Grumman. EADS Defence & Security will also provide a SIGINT ground station, which will receive and analyze the data from Euro Hawk® as part of an integrated system solution.

With a wingspan larger than a commercial airliner, endurance of 30 hours and a maximum altitude of more than 60,000 feet, Euro Hawk® is an interoperable, modular and cost-effective replacement to the aging fleet of manned Breguet Atlantic aircraft, which have been in service since 1972 and will be retired in 2010. Subsequent systems are anticipated for delivery between 2016 and 2017 following successful testing and introduction in German operational service.

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Notapor champi el Lun Jul 05, 2010 7:33 pm

Más sobre el Global Hawk. Lo siguiente es intentar la capacidad de repostaje en vuelo: http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... eling.html
By Gayle Putrich

Northrop Grumman will work to demonstrate unmanned air vehicle to unmanned air vehicle refuelling with two RQ-4 Global Hawks under a $33 million deal with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The KQ-X programme will bring together Northrop, NASA and the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to retrofit two high-altitude long-endurance aircraft for an entirely autonomous hose-and-drogue refuelling. The programme will also mark the first attempt to pilot Global Hawks in formation, says Northrop.

Because the Global Hawk can fly at altitudes up to 65,000ft (20,000m), refuelling will take place at a much higher altitude than has previously been demonstrated with manned aircraft. Most aircraft refuelling takes place around the 20,000-30,000ft range, depending on the platform.
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Notapor alfavega el Lun Jul 12, 2010 5:08 pm

Presentación del UCA Taranis, demostrador steatlh.
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"Extraño juego. El único movimiento para ganar es no jugar", de la peli "Juegos de Guerra".
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Re: Aviones sin piloto (UAV, UCAV, drone)

Notapor Orel el Vie Jul 16, 2010 9:26 pm

Tras la noticia sobre el UAV "solar" de gran autonomí­a, otro "ecologista":
HALE de Boeing demostrador tecnológico del uso del hidrógeno: el Phantom Eye

Puede estar 4 dí­as a 65.000 pies de altura. Eso sí­, para lo bicho que es, su carga de pago no supera las 450 libras... de momento.
http://www.boeing.com/Features/2010/07/bds_feat_phantom_eye_07_12_10.html

Boeing unveiled its hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system during a ceremony in St. Louis on July 12. The demonstrator, which will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days, is powered by two 2-liter, four-cylinder engines that provide 150 horsepower each. It has a 150-foot wingspan, will cruise at approximately 150 knots and can carry up to a 450-pound payload.


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