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Israel Aerospace Industries has unveiled what it believes to be a unique combination using hand-launched unmanned air vehicles and autonomous surface-to-surface missiles to provide fire support for ground forces.

The company released details of its Mosquito UAV and Jumper vertically launched missile system on 2 September. Continue reading...

Check out this video of a Mosquito UAV being launched and see aerial footage it records.

 

See this great video showing a dogfight being played out by a curious bird of prey which was spotted investigating a remote controlled aircraft from the fin-mounted camera.

 

A British Army Elbit Systems Hermes 450 unmanned air vehicle had a near miss with a Boeing CH-47 Chinook while on operations in Afghanistan, Flight can reveal. About half way through the 37s video the Chinook comes into view and grows larger in the left hand side of the frame

Aurora Flight Sciences' unmanned aircraft SunLight Eagle flew on 12 May. The solar-powered, 34.7m (114ft) wingspan, 75kg (165lb) UAV became airborne at New Mexico State University's Physical Science Laboratory Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center at Las Cruces airport.

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A colleague and I thought this looked similar to the Gossamer Condor? What do you think?

For more on the Gossamer Condor and the Kremer Prize in Flight's PDF archive

Go here to watch the test flight video of this product's prototype

Watch this video, care of the Chicago Tribune newspaper website, about the US Air Force Research Laboratory's computer generated vision of bird and insect-like Micro Air Vehicles (MAV) of the future including a suicide MAV that explodes on making contact with its human target

If urban warfare is your thing then this video shows an "community" Xbox game where the player controls what appears to be a ducted fan powered unmanned air vehicle and battles other UAVs from street to street

University of Maryland researchers have performed flight tests to prove that a bird-like micro air vehicle can achieve additional lift by folding its wings on the upstroke, similar to the motions of large birds in nature

Seen in this video is one of two unmanned air vehicles used by UK Ministry of Defence's August 2008 Grand Challenge winner Team Stellar. Team Stellar won the challenge that required autonomous vehicles to identify threats such as marksmen and armed militia.

The UAV seen in the video is Team Stellar's 1.8kg (3.96lb) "medium level" vehicle that is launched by bungee cord after the team's 7kg "hi-level" unmanned aircraft has maps an area.

credit: Mod

On Thursday 14 August the UK's Ministry of Defence held its media day for its Grand Challenge competition that was conducted from 16-18 August with the winner being announced on the 19th.