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Airbus’ VSR700 VTOL UAV Achieves New Milestone
Airbus announced that its VSR700 VTOL UAV prototype reached a speed of 60 kts during its latest test flight.
14 April 2021
Airbus announced that its VSR700 VTOL UAV prototype reached a speed of 60 kts during its latest test flight.
Kongsberg Geospatial announced on Feb. 9 that it has been selected by Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) to conduct trials of a new long-endurance UAV surveillance system for the Canadian Coast Guard.
Over the next few months the newly acquired CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS will be integrated on the French Navy’s vessels Tonnerre and Mistral
Martin UAV, in collaboration with the Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC), began a contractor-owned, contractor-operated deployment on-board a Coast Guard cutter in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility on Aug. 13-14, 2020.
The German Navy (Deutsche Marine) has just started at-sea tests of the SKELDAR V200 vertical take off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aboard first-in-class K130 corvette “Braunschweig”.
The British Coast Guard (HM Coastguard) will start operational trials of two Schiebel CAMCOPTER S-100 vertical take off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to support search and rescue (SAR) response in north Wales both at sea and in the mountains.
The prototype of Airbus Helicopters’ VSR700 vertical take off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has performed its first free flight. The VSR700 performed a ten minute flight at a drone test centre near Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Anzac-class Frigate HMAS Ballarat recently embarked a S-100 Camcopter Vertical Take Off and Land (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for flight trials off the Eastern coast of Australia.
ECA Group awarded UMS SKELDAR a procurement contract to supply the UAV SKELDAR V-200 as part of the naval mine countermeasures capability replacement, a programme led by Belgium Naval & Robotics – a consortium including Naval Group and ECA Group – which will supply twelve mine hunters equipped with drone systems (Toolbox) to the Belgian and Royal Netherlands navies.
A new type of vertical take off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was allegedly spotted last week aboard one of the two Type 075 LHD currently fitting out in China. Henri Kenhmann from East Pendulum has the story.
