Thursday, December 1, 2011

DTN News - UAVs ~ NEXT GENERATION WARFARE TECHNOLOGY: Korea Develops Unmanned Tiltrotor Aircraft

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 1, 2011: Last August, Sikorsky revealed the company’s new strategic move by joining in partnered with Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), which has been developing the Smart unmanned air vehicle (UAV) tiltrotor for about nine years.

KARI had originally partnered with Bell several years ago to develop a more capable version of the latter’s HV911 Eagle Eye. Bell dropped out of the partnership in 2005, then canceled the Eagle Eye following several mishaps in flight testing.

KARI, however, continued developing the Smart UAV and achieved first flight in 2008.

Sikorsky has experimented with various rotory-wing configurations over its history, including most notably the coaxial rotor of the X2 high-speed helicopter.

Korea on Wednesday unveiled its first unmanned tiltrotor aircraft, capable of vertical takeoff and landing as well as high-speed navigation.

The Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute disclosed the new “smart” aircraft at the aerospace center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province.

The state-funded aerospace think tank is negotiating with government agencies for commercial use of the vehicle.

“We have just completed the research and development program, and are in talks with the ministries of defense, land and knowledge economy about the next step,” said Park Kyun-je, chief of KARI’s smart aerial vehicle development center.

“Our UAV can now fly at about a speed of 400 kph, and our aim is to raise it to 500.”

Most helicopters’ maximum speed is between 200 and 300 kph.

In addition to military use by the Navy and the Marines, KARI expects the aircraft to be useful for reconnaissance of coasts and islands, prevention and control of forest fires, transportation monitoring and atmospheric and environmental observation.

The tiltrotor aircraft could also be used in the future as a platform for personal air vehicles which enable door-to-door transportation without the use of runways, KARI said in a press release.

KARI seeks to export the new UAV. Companies in the U.S. and the Middle East are showing interest in working together with KARI for the smart UAV development.

The value of global demand for unmanned aerial vehicles is expected to more than double from $9 billion last year to $19 billion in 2020, according to the Teal Group, an aerospace and defense market consultant.

KARI is set to continue flight performance tests to check on sensors for collision-avoidance, maximum speed and flight duration by next year and is considering developing a manned version as well.

KARI has been working on the UAV development project for the past 10 years since 2002 with dozens of businesses, universities and research institutes.

The 20 participating companies include the Korea Aerospace Industries, LIG Nex1, Huneed Technologies, Youngpoong Electronics and several foreign firms such as EATI.

A tiltrotor combines a helicopter’s vertical lift capability with the speed and range of a plane by using rotors on rotating shafts attached to conventional wings.

Currently, the United States produces a tiltrotor ―- the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey ― the manned version of which is deployed by the U.S. Marines Corps. and was featured in the blockbuster film “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” A program to mass produce the unmanned tiltrotor was canceled in the early 2000s.

By Kim So-hyun (sophie@heraldm.com)


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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

DTN News - NATO ATTACK ON PAKISTAN: Pakistan Boycotts Key Afghan Summit Over NATO Attack

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - November 29, 2011: Pakistan decided Tuesday to boycott a key international conference on Afghanistan next month, ramping up its protest over lethal cross-border NATO air strikes that have plunged US ties into deep crisis.

The decision was taken at a Pakistani cabinet meeting in the eastern city of Lahore, just days after Islamabad confirmed it was mulling its attendance in the German city of Bonn, where Pakistan's participation was considered vital.

"The cabinet has decided not to attend the Bonn meeting," a government official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The prime minister's office said the cabinet agreed that "unilateral action" such as Saturday's strike in the tribal district of Mohmand and the May 2 US killing of Osama bin Laden near the capital was "unacceptable".

US-led investigators have been given until December 23 to probe the attacks, threatening to prolong significantly Pakistan's blockade on NATO supplies into Afghanistan implemented in retaliation for the killings.

The US military appointed Brigadier General Stephen Clark, a one-star air force general based in Florida, to lead the investigation into the attack.

The team, set to include a NATO representative, is yet to arrive in Afghanistan but an initial military assessment team went to the border at the weekend after Saturday's catastrophic strike killing 24 Pakistani troops.

The Afghan and Pakistani governments are also being invited to take part. There was no immediate reaction from Islamabad or Kabul, although some analysts voiced surprise that it will take as long as nearly four weeks.

A Western military official in Kabul said the schedule for the findings being delivered was "way quicker" than initially expected.

US-Pakistani ties have been in free fall since a CIA contractor killed two Pakistanis in January and Saturday's attack raises disturbing questions about the extent to which the two allies cooperate with each other.

Islamabad insists that the air strikes were unprovoked, but Afghan and Western officials have reportedly accused Pakistani forces of firing first.

"With the kind of technology available to the US and NATO, it was expected they would be able to do it (the investigation) much earlier, not more than two weeks," Pakistani defence analyst Talat Masood told AFP.

In Pakistan, angry protests over the NATO strikes pushed into a fourth day, with 150-200 people demonstrating in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, setting fire to an American flag and an effigy of NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

The crowd carried banners and shouted: "Those who befriend America are traitors" and "We are ready for jihad", an AFP reporter said.

Pakistan has vowed no more "business as usual" with the United States. In addition to shutting its Afghan border, it has ordered Americans to vacate an air base reportedly used by CIA drones and a review of the alliance.

Yet behind the rhetoric, Islamabad has little wriggle room, being dependent on US aid dollars and fearful of the repercussions for regional security as American troops wind down their presence in Afghanistan in the coming years.

In an interview with CNN, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stopped short of threatening to break the alliance altogether saying: "That can continue on mutual respect and mutual interest."

White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama believed Saturday's incident was "a tragedy", and said Washington valued what he called an "important cooperative relationship that is also very complicated".

Last time Pakistan closed the border, in September 2010 after up to three soldiers were killed in a similar cross-border raid, it only reopened the route after the United States issued a full apology.

The US military has insisted the war effort in Afghanistan would continue and has sought to minimise the disruption to regular supply lines.

Nearly half of all cargo bound for NATO-led troops runs through Pakistan. Roughly 140,000 foreign troops, including about 97,000 American forces, rely on supplies from the outside to fight the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan.

Yet so far, officials say there has been no sign that Islamabad would bar the US aircraft from flying over Pakistan.

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