UAVs

Dossier

High Eye Airboxer

In the age of high-tech systems, where established OEMs and new start-ups alike compete to grab headlines with claims of what their products can do, it is easy to fall prey to the temptation to constantly replace parts and components with the latest...

Dossier

Groupe Danielson Trident 100 TD2 turbodiesel

Just over 10 years ago, we featured Groupe Danielson’s Trident 100 TD2 engine, a 1.1 L, inline three-cylinder turbodiesel designed specifically for the UAV market. Since the company’s 2014 public launch of the Trident series of engines at AUVSI Xponential...

In Operation

Event 38 E455

Experienced commercial UAV operator Phoenix Air Unmanned (PAU) announced in early January that it had used a single Event 38 E455 fixed-wing VTOL aircraft to complete a 320 mile pipeline patrol in just 7.6 flight hours for Shell Pipeline Company...

Digest

ISS Aerospace Sensus L heavy-lift multicopter

Developed by ISS Aerospace in Chieveley, Berkshire, in England’s Thames Valley, the Sensus L is a modular heavy-lift multicopter built to handle demanding, data-intensive tasks in a variety of industries. Initially created to tackle oil giant Total’s METIS programme...

Digest

RigiTech Eiger UAV

With the advent of uncrewed logistics solutions in air, and on land and sea, it pays to understand there are fundamental differences between what logistics operators need of their UAS, and what conventional UASs (designed most often for imaging-based work) bring to the table...

Digest

FIXAR 025

The value of UAVs for mapping and inspection is directly linked to the efficiency with which they carry their sensor payloads. While this has been known for years, it is only recently that advances in modern design capabilities have enabled aerospace engineers to pursue alternatives...

In Operation

Red Cat Holdings Black Widow

Small UAVs have carved themselves a dominant position in modern land warfare of late, with both sides in the Ukraine War using them for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike missions. The war has been characterised by demanding physical conditions...

In Operation

Dropla mine countermeasures

In August 2023, much of the media surrounding the war in Ukraine was focused on an incipient counteroffensive, aimed at retaking occupied territories, including the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. By December, however...

Dossier

Honeywell 600U, 600U-HV and 1200U fuel cells

In UST 14 (June/July 2017) we featured the hydrogen fuel cell from the Protonex Technology Corporation, which at the time was principally used by Insitu...