New effort for unmanned vehicles

May 16 2012 18:45:27

New effort for unmanned vehicles

ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News

Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle in collaboration with defense industry firms, daily Hürriyet reported yesterday.

Among the features of the vehicle are its capabilities to scan a distance of 200 kilometers and to hang in the air to obtain detailed images of a given territory. The project started four years ago and two prototypes have been produced so far, said Professor

Alim Rüstem Aslan of the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at İTÜ.

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