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By Garrett Reim2021-05-14T21:57:00+01:00 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems demonstrated a soldier on the ground using a tablet computer to control an MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range unmanned air vehicle (UAV). The demonstration, which occurred on 23 April at Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona, showed a Joint Terminal Attack Controller using a tablet to control the electro-optical/infrared camera on the aircraft, the company said on 13 May. Joint Terminal Attack Controllers are military service members trained to call in air strikes close to friendly troops. Source: General Atomics Aeronautica...

autoevolution 11 Mar 2021, 15:00 UTC · by Military drones are pretty much everywhere now. They are being flown remotely, with pilots sitting comfortably many miles away inside what is generally known as a ground control station (GCS). Usually, these fixed stations need to be large enough to house all the complex hardware required to fly a drone, and at times that could be a disadvantage. 6 photos But what if an operator could use a straightforward, more mobile solution for the task at hand? This is one of the questions defense contractor General Atomics (GA-ASI) tried to answer back at...

U.S. Army Uses Laptop installed with GA-ASI Software to Control Gray Eagle ER UAS Our Bureau 1592 Gray Eagle Extended Range drone General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) and the U.S. Army conducted the first production Acceptance Test Procedure (ATP) flights of a Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System using GA-ASI Scalable Command & Control (SC2) software installed on an Army-owned laptop computer. SC2 controlled an Army GE-ER aircraft for 3.8 hours and the system successfully completed all test points. “SC2 represents a massive reduction in emplacement, mi...

By Garrett Reim2021-02-04T01:35:00+00:00 The US Army says it has conducted manned-unmanned teaming between the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and two different unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). An AH-64E, a Textron Shadow RQ-7BV2 Block 3 tactical UAV and a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range UAV successfully worked together to carry out an air-to-ground missile attack at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah last October, the service says. Source: US Army US Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter An Apache pilot took control of the RQ-7’s sensor payload for reconnai...