Aviones sin piloto (RPAS, UAS, UCAS, drones)

[Orel]

Contratazo para el Reaper ya esperado, el más grande fuera de EEUU: India to approve purchase for 30 MQ-9s next month:
https://twitter.com/alert5/status/1369445189450862600

US Navy plans to buy 120 submarine-launched Blackwing UAVs
https://www.flightglobal.com/military-u ... 07.article

[champi]

"La Escuela Militar de UAS del GRUEMA pone a prueba las capacidades del UAS Atlantic de SCR everis. La campaña de vuelos se ha realizado en el marco del Programa Rapaz de DGAM, en el que SCR participa activamente desde 2016. El GRUEMA cuenta desde 2017 con 2 Tucán": https://twitter.com/famdelmundo/status/ ... 3132173312


Artículo sobre el programa "Agility Prime" de la USAF: https://evtol.news/news/agility-prime-a ... evelopment

By Kenneth I. Swartz
...
The Air Force is interested in three eVTOL aircraft class, described in three Areas of Interest (AOI) solicitations published after an umbrella Agility Prime ICO.

AOI-1 Specifications
• Payload: 3–8 personnel
• Range: Greater than 100 miles [161 km]
• Speed: Greater than 100 mph [161 km/h]
• Endurance: Greater than 60 minutes
• First Full-Scale Flight: Prior to Dec. 17, 2020

AOI-2 Specifications
• Payload: 1–2 persons (equivalent)
• Range: Greater than 10 miles [16 km]
• Speed: Greater than 45 mph [72 km/h]
• Endurance: Greater than 15 minutes
• First Full-Scale Flight: Prior to Dec. 17, 2020

AOI-3 Specifications
• Cargo aircraft, not necessarily designed to carry occupants
• MTOGW: Greater than 1,320 lb [600 kg]
• Payload: Greater than 500 lb [227 kg]
• Range: Greater than 200 miles [322 km]
• Speed: Greater than 100 mph [161 km/h]
• Endurance: Greater than 100 minutes
• First Full-Scale Flight: Prior to Dec. 17, 2020
...
The deadline for the Air Race to Certification was extended to Dec. 17, 2021, to attract a second tranche of participating eVTOL developers.
...

[jesromgar]

"Some of the new Iranian...Yemeni drones just unveiled by the Houthis."
-Oryx

https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1370008831066058755

[jesromgar]

#Houthi Ansar Allah military commanders unveil a military exhibition. What caught my eyes: #Samad drone equipped with rockets, a hexa-copter #Rajum carrying mortars or bombs, and the Scud variant #Zulfiqar. #Yemen
@BashaReport

https://twitter.com/BashaReport/status/1370004855100735489

[Kique]

Emergency landing was made by a Denel Seeker 400 reconnaissance UAV In #SouthAfrica.
https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/sta ... 84130?s=20

[Kique]

US Air Force awards Black Swift Technologies contract for a software capable of predicting UAS system failures before they happen
https://airrecognition.com/index.php/ne ... appen.html


Russian scientists developed an anti-drone missile that ensnares adversary UAVs with a net
https://twitter.com/SamBendett/status/1 ... 55521?s=20

[Kique]

Drone alemán Heron que se ha estrellado (bastante bien) cerca de Mazar e Sharif.



https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/4871

Sobre los drones usados por los talibanes.

https://thediplomat.com/2020/12/fire-fr ... ns-drones/

[champi]

Más sobre el cambio a arquitectura abierta y modular, en este caso del Grey Eagle: https://www.monch.com/mpg/news/unmanned ... le-er.html

In January, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA ASI) and the US Army conducted the first production acceptance test procedure flights of a GRAY EAGLE Extended Range (GE-ER) UAS using GA-ASI-developed Scalable Command & Control (SC2) software on an Army-owned laptop, the company announced on 10 March. SC2 controlled an Army GE-ER aircraft for 3.8 hours and the system successfully completed all test points.

“SC2 represents a massive reduction in emplacement, mission launch time and overall footprint size,” commented J R Redi, the company’s VP of Strategic Development. “The SC2 software could be part of the Army’s Ground Modernization plan, replacing the Universal Ground Control Station (UGCS) with rugged laptops and tactical servers, enabling more mobile operations in a defined Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) framework.”

SC2 is a collection of standalone software applications that reduce operator workload through automated checklists, optimising steps for pre-flight, taxi, launch and recovery, health and status monitoring, sensor and payload control and maintenance of the GE-ER. SC2 reduces the logistics burden of set-up, transport and operation of a GE-ER, enabling control of the UAS and its payloads, while allowing aircraft, payloads and sensors to be controlled by disparate users replicating a ground manoeuvre force or other disadvantaged user. The system gives the Army everything it needs in a faster, simpler way.
...

De nuevo migración a sistemas MOSA y bajada de precios. Recordemos que el término MOSA primero fue OSA ("Open systems Architecture"), después MOSA ("Modular Open Systems Architecture") y ahora han cambiado la "A" de arquitectura por la de aproximación, pero es el mismo concepto que ha evolucionado con el tiempo.

[Orel]

La Escuela Militar de UAS del GRUEMA pone a prueba las capacidades del UAS Atlantic de SCR everis. La campaña de vuelos se ha realizado en el marco del Programa Rapaz de DGAM, en el que SCR participa activamente desde 2016. El GRUEMA cuenta desde 2017 con 2 Tucán

Venga, sigamos mareando la perdiz, probando drones clase I españoles 6 años después de empezar el Rapaz, adquiriendo varios modelos en cantidad irrisoria, lo cual ni es operativo ni apoya a nuestra industria. Lo que se dice un "loss-loss". "Semos" la "leshe". Y eso para unos míseros clase I... Y en esos mismos 6 años en este tema hemos puesto cambios doctrinales, novedades tecnológicas, adquisiciones por parte de todo quisque, etc, para parar un tren...


Aparte, Northrop propone el drón merodeador (loitering) israelí UVision Hero para equipar al FVL (future vertical lift) en forma de ALE (air-launched effect).
Últimamente la industria israelí está que se sale en el US Army: Iron Dome, Trophy...
https://www.flightglobal.com/military-u ... 38.article

Saludos

[Kique]

https://youtu.be/MFqAshZCFhM



PD: Ojito con el buque que sale en el segundo 20.

[jesromgar]

Parece ser fake news
(Lo dejo por si hay alguna confirmación, que lo dudo)

Post original:
Parece que Luhansk People's Militia (lease Rusia) ha derribado el primer Bayraktar TB2 en Ucrania (Luhansk), presumiblemente empleado por fuerzas ucranianas. Con este serían en total 35 los aparatos de este tipo derribados por Rusia entre Siria, Libia y, ahora, Ucrania (aunque ya se sabe que algunas "confirmaciones" no son del todo fiables).

Fotos:
https://twitter.com/Makis_Kevrekidi/status/1370792103907885063?s=19

Fuente Tass:
https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/10897993/amp

Gracias Kique

[Kique]

Esa imagen es del conflicto Armenia - Azerbaiyán.

https://southfront.org/in-photos-armeni ... -karabakh/

[Orel]

Y seguimos probando modelitos para el Rapaz sin decidirnos:
https://www.infodefensa.com/es/2021/03/ ... rmada.html

[Orel]

Corea del Sur e Israel colaborarán en un drón ISTAR:
https://twitter.com/JanesINTEL/status/1 ... 2672820227
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... orne-istar

[jesromgar]

"Drone-killing, dune buggy-mounted laser gets tested overseas" / por Nathan Strout
La US Air Force estaría probando armas láseres de alto poder (HELWS) contra UAVs en el extranjero montados en buggies.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2021/03/15/drone-killing-dune-buggy-mounted-laser-gets-tested-overseas/