KEEPING AN EAR ON THE GROUND

Successful test flight for Tellumat ASTUS

South African provider of defence and security technology provider Tellumat successfully completed flight trials with its ASTUS unmanned aerial system (UAS). Willie Malan, support and services manager for Tellumat Defence and Security, reported the ASTUS unmanned aerial system flight team is back home after a number of successful test flights in the Overberg region of ...
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SA goes big at IDEX

South African companies have a big presence at the Middle East’s largest defence show, IDEX, which opened on Sunday in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. There are about 30 South African companies at the show, with about 25 on the South African stand – Paramount, Milkor, Etion Create, and S-Plane have ...
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IDEX: TELLUMAT TO PROMOTE ASTUS UAS

Among the products Tellumat will be promoting at IDEX this year will be the ASTUS Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). Launched at the Africa Aerospace and Defence exhibition in September, ASTUS is a medium-size, medium-range tactical surveillance UAS, suitable for lengthy day/night missions requiring real-time surveillance data collection and delivery, such as border and coastal security, ...
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WHICH UAS?

Considerations in commercial and military UAS procurement

There are a number of forces that guide, govern and in some cases limit the application of UAS technology. Adding to this, the classification of UAVs is confusing as there is no universal way to describe the differences between military and civil classifications of aircraft size, performance and maximum take-off mass. We’ve written a short guide on navigating this decision making process.

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