UST Weekly eBrief - August 17th, 2023
Unmanned Systems Technology
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Here’s a quick roundup of some of this week’s top news and developments in the unmanned industry…
Teal Drones , a subsidiary?of Red Cat Holdings ,?has received a $2.6 million purchase order to supply its Teal 2 sUAS to the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).
Teal will deliver 172 units of the Teal 2, plus spare parts and training. This order was requested by U.S. Air Force Security Forces, whose role is to defend Air Force bases and installations.
SoftBank Group Corp. ?has collected the necessary data for flight verification and aircraft design as part of its development of a next-gen UAS designed for High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) by testing a sub-scale model.
A low altitude flight test was conducted in March 2023 in Willcox Playa, Arizona, using a sub-scale model based on “Sunglider,” a UAS designed for HAPS-based stratospheric telecommunications. SoftBank collected and analyzed various data, including data on the aircraft’s structural characteristics, that could not be otherwise obtained from computer-based simulations.
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RIEGL ?and?Striekair engineering ?GmbH have integrated the VUX-12023 laser scanner with VTOL CarryAir, furthering precise data acquisition during unmanned aerial surveys.
During its inaugural flight, the duo successfully captured accurate data of the ground structure. With a cruising speed of 85 km/h the CarryAir offers an optimal combination of point cloud density and efficient data acquisition.
Shield AI ?and?Sentient Vision Systems ?have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at delivering a wide area motion imagery solution for Department of Defense, Australian Defense Forces (ADF) and other international customers.
The companies will jointly develop and integrate AI-enabled wide area motion imagery capability with Shield AI’s V-BAT unmanned aircraft.
Read all the latest news on UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com >
Thanks for posting; we are excited about the collaboration between Shield AI and Sentient, with the gamechanging potential to develop and integrate a ViDAR-enabled, wide-area-search capability onto Shield AI’s V-BAT unmanned aircraft.