This issue also provides updates on Lockheed Martin plans for a potential replacement of its Polecat UAV, the prototype of which was lost in December, and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems plans to retain a weapons capability on its proposed US Navy Broad Area Maritime Surveillance System UAV.
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Welcome to Flight Unmanned e-newsletter, this issue led by our detailed report on plans by the UK-based GFS Projects Ltd to transition their experimental coanda-effect air vehicles into a family of manned and unmanned craft. That development effort will commence with a 1.2m diameter civil UAV with this expected to be commercially available in two years.

Other stories in this edition include exploration of new generation endurance UAVs by the US Air Force Research Laboratory, an update on India’s MALE development programme, and Spain’s selection of the IAI Searcher II UAV for operations in Afghanistan.

Our programmes section in this edition looks at datalink plans for the Dassault-led Neuron unmanned combat air vehicle. We also introduce a new section, operations, with this to focus on lessons emerging from the use of UAVs in both civil and military environments.

Flight Unmanned reporters will this week be at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s Unmanned Systems Europe 2007 conference in Cologne, Germany.

Flight Unmanned e-newsletter is a free service brought to you every two weeks by Flight, and it is jointly distributed with our partners AUVSI and the European Commission-initiated UAVNET working group.

Latest News

GFS plans family of coanda-effect craft
Lead commercial product will be a 1.2m UAV for the commercial marketplace.

USAF to survey technology options for new generation multirole UAVs
Future hunter killer UAVs will have global reach.

India eyes industrial partners for new MALE UAV
Role of international manufacturers likely to be limited in favour of local firms.

Spain to acquire Searcher II UAVs
Systems to be deployed to Afghanistan to support NATO forces.

Programmes

Neuron UCAV datalink plans connect to Rafale fighter pod
Systems will form the basis of a new multiband communications suite.

Operations

NATO confirms blue force identification challenge
Validation of UAV imagery is essential to reducing fratricide says senior commander.

Air Traffic Integration

US army plans small UAV sense and avoid development
New suite would provide collision avoidance in high speed urban operations.

Science & Technology

New dual spectrum camera for UAVs
Thales is developing a lightweight imager that will simultaneously cover two bands.

Events

Unmanned Systems Europe Conference
8-9 May 2007 - Cologne, Germany

ParcAberporth Unmanned Systems 2007
11-12 July 2007 - ParcAberporth, Wales

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