Monday, September 10, 2018

Terminator Times #49

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones):

The USAF is upgrading its Reapers to a multispectral targeting system made by Raytheon.

A USAF RQ-4 Global Hawk crashed off the coast of Spain last June.

Does the USAF need a Loyal Wingman UCAV?

The US MDA just gave Boeing, General Atomics and Lockheed contracts to improve their lasers intended for mounting on a UAV for missile defense.  The MDA is reportedly aiming for a 500 kw laser by 2021 and a 1 MW laser by 2023.

The US Navy award to Boeing of the MQ-25A is the largest defense contract win for Boeing in more than a decade and may lead to over 150 Stingrays.

US Special Operations Command gave General Atomics an integration contract for MALET.

Some interesting pix were found in Google Earth of Chinese UAVs by an Indian source.  I disagree with their assessment of what they are seeing, but not the images themselves.

The Indian Army selected the SpyLite UAV.

Russia claims to have destroyed a UAV factory in Syria.

Russia is testing its third Altair UAV.

Boeing has released another video related to the MQ-25A.  WiB discussed the MQ-25A history.

UAVOS showed off its latest UAVs.

UMS Skeldar is detailing the development of the next gen V-200.

Unmanned Ground Vehicles (Bolos and Ogres):

The Brits are trialling their T7 UGV before delivery.

Arquus demoed an unmanned 4x4 Dagger vehicle.

Unmanned Surface Vehicles (robo boats):

Russia is building USVs to hunt mines.

Software Bots:

DARPA is investing $2B in AI for the military.

META:

The US Army is talking about 'Fully Autonomous Maneuver' (aka killer robots) as a legitimate concept for the future.  The near future goal though being developed by the Army Research Lab is the 'mobile intelligent entities.' 

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