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Insitu Aerosonde
Posted on March 18th, 2009 No comments
The Aerosonde is a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to collect weather data, including temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, and wind measurements, over oceans and remote areas. On August 21, 1998 a Phase 1 Aerosonde completed a 2,031 mile (3,270 km) flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Read the rest of this entry » -
Russia admits it has no capabilities to develop drones
Posted on March 6th, 2009 No comments
According to this post (sorry, available only in russian) Russian defense ministry admits that after spending 1bln roubles ($25000000) russians are still unable any functional drone. So it looks like the US and Israel remain absolute leaders in the UAV development and no other countries are even close to them. Even new French drone is basically a copy of Heron-1. The BLA-05 “Tipchuck” show here doesn’t look like a serious military tool with its 2hrs of flight time.
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