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Northrop Grumman has delivered to the US Navy (USN) the first production example of the IFC-4 Triton, an upgraded MQ-4C that includes signals intelligence payloads.
https://www.flightglobal.com/military-u ... 53.article
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to develop an artificially intelligent (AI) software program to help UH-60 Black Hawk pilots fly.
https://www.flightglobal.com/helicopter ... 37.article
By Pierre Tran
Paris – Spain formally approved Jan. 25 a total budget of €3.17 billion ($3.5 billion) for its share of development, production and service of a European medium-altitude, long-endurance drone, clearing the way for a contract to be signed with industrial partners Airbus, Dassault Aviation and Leonardo.
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France earmarked in its 2022 budget €2 billion for an order for six European UAV systems, comprising 18 drones, with an initial order of four systems, followed by two more systems, as set out in the budget document Programme 146, Equipment for the Forces.
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Germany is due to receive seven UAV systems, comprising 21 drones, while Italy is due to receive five systems, comprising 15 drones.
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Industry, led by Airbus DS, initially pitched the UAV project for some €10 billion, prompting France to insist the budget should be capped at €7.1 billion, media reports said.
Delay in securing the funding pushed back delivery of the drone to 2028, three years late, as set out in the French budget document.
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The programme includes development and manufacturing of 20 drone systems, which each contain 3 aircraft and 2 ground control stations. Furthermore it includes Ground Support Equipment, spare parts incl. warehousing, training and 6.5 years initial in-service support.
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champi escribió:Gracias por el apunte, se ve que se hicieron un lío en el artículo. De esa manera "solo" nos sale a cada sistema en €434 millones. Por cierto, ¿se sabe por qué al resto de socios les va a salir más barato? Por ejemplo, Italia pone €1.800 millones y se lleva cinco sistemas (uno más que nosotros), por lo que cada uno le saldría a €360 millones.
Por cierto, acabo de leer que cada sistema incluye dos estaciones de control: http://www.occar.int/occar-and-male-rpa ... pas%23news...
The programme includes development and manufacturing of 20 drone systems, which each contain 3 aircraft and 2 ground control stations. Furthermore it includes Ground Support Equipment, spare parts incl. warehousing, training and 6.5 years initial in-service support.
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General Atomics tests controlling MQ-1C across multiple satellite constellations
GA ground tested the MQ-1C Gray Eagle ER’s ability to fly using datalinks from multiple satellite networks. The effort was intended to test the ability of the UAV to be controlled by multiple means in areas that are contested by an adversary.
“Satellite constellation diversity combined with multiple line-of-sight options for interfacing with the modernised [Gray Eagle ER] provides resilient and robust communications with supported manoeuvre units and manned aviation assets,” says the manufacturer.
The test was part of a US Army-funded development effort to upgrade the MQ-1C. It showed the UAV could maintain data links and support high-bandwidth data rates with geostationary Earth orbit Ku- and Ka-band satellites and medium earth orbit Ka-band satellites, says General Atomics.
Communication with the different satellites was facilitated with common hardware and software. “Advanced waveform capabilities” were also tested during the event, says the company.
Multiple means of connecting to the Gray Eagle ER could also be helpful in conducting long-range missions. The unmanned aircraft has a mission endurance of 42h and the US Army is looking at how it might be used across the vast spaces of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
General Atomics plans to flight test the satellite communication systems on the MQ-1C in the fourth quarter of 2022.
https://www.flightglobal.com/military-u ... 71.article
Teniendo ciertas virtudes, parece que no ha tenido mucho éxito.champi escribió:Bell muestra a la NASA su transporte de pods autónomo: https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/lo ... hwest-isd/
La noticia original, con imágenes a mayor resolución: https://investor.textron.com/news/news- ... fault.aspx
DARPA flies Black Hawk autonomously, no pilots on board
8 February 2022
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) flew a UH-60A Black Hawk, retrofitted with Lockheed Martin/Sikorsky’s Matrix technology, autonomously, without pilots on board for the first time.
DARPA’s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) programme has flown the UH-60A autonomously before, but never without back-up pilots on board.
The first flight of the “optionally piloted vehicle” (OPV) was on 5 February, DARPA said on 8 February. During the first flight, the helicopter started up autonomously, went through pre-flight checks, took off, performed simple forward flight and pedal turn manoeuvres and then landed, and powered down.
The second flight, on 7 February, which lasted 30 minutes, took place at about 4,000ft altitude and at a 110kt (204km/h) cruise speed. The flight simulated the UH-60A flying between buildings in downtown Manhattan. To simulate New York City’s skyline, the Matrix computer was fed fake LiDAR data. “The aircraft was essentially avoiding buildings in real time. Think about the operational need for that. Think of [US Army Future Vertical Lift] vehicles in urban environments doing rapid egress into areas they don’t know, they’ve never seen before.”
DARPA sees two general uses for Matrix: freeing pilots from flying to think about other tasks, such as mission management; and creating safety protections, such as automatic obstacle avoidance.
When it comes to emergency situations the quick reaction time of the Matrix system performs better than human pilots...
Retrofitting the Matrix system into most Black Hawks requires replacing the helicopter’s mechanical controls with fly-by-wire controls. Removing mechanical hardware removes maintenance-heavy elements, reducing the helicopter’s overall sustainment burden... The fly-by-wire Matrix system also prevents pilots from attempting overly-aggressive flight maneovres that can stress and damage expensive parts, such as a main rotor blade...
The ALIAS programme is in its final phase...
Discussions are underway with the US Department of State to obtain permission to export the Matrix technology to foreign operators of the UH-60...
The US government owns some of the software developed under the ALIAS programme. However, Sikorsky, which started developing Matrix initially on its own using internal research and development funds, owns the core of the software. Matrix has an open application programming interface and Sikorsky is interested in licensing it out to third parties, says Cherepinsky.
...DARPA plans to formally conclude the ALIAS programme at the end of fiscal year 2022.
https://www.flightglobal.com/helicopter ... 24.article
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/air- ... first-time
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ARMY
Area-I,* Kennesaw, Georgia, was awarded a $15,000,000 modification (P00005) to contract W911W6-17-D-0004 for design, analysis, simulation, fabrication, integration, and ground and flight testing of an expendable, air-launched unmanned aircraft system. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of March 22, 2023. U.S Army contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.
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