Damian Kemp

AUVSI 2018: It's all about the arms for Aquanaut

US technology start-up Houston Mechatronics will from June begin open water testing of its new 'Transformer-style' underwater ROV which travels to an inspection site as ...

AUSA 2017: GM SURUS about UGVs

GM has unveiled its Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS), a large multipurpose hydrogen-electric UGV at the AUSA exhibition in Washington DC. Based on commercial ...

AUSA 2017: SMET contender bares its fangs

HDT Global has unveiled a new UGV at AUSA in Washington DC, one of ten platforms that competed recently at the US Army’s Squad Multipurpose ...

Paris Air Show: Arming options for CV-22

Further arming options are being considered for the US Air Force’s special operations CV-22 tiltrotor as Bell-Boeing plans where to take the variants of the ...

Author

Damian Kemp has worked in the defence media for 17 years covering military aircraft, defence business and the unmanned vehicles sector.

A native of Melbourne Australia, he graduated from RMIT Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts (Journalism). He began working at Jane's Information Group in 1996 variously as journalist, business editor and aviation editor at the company.

Damian now works as a Dataset Editor at Shephard Media, covering C4I, EW, Maritime Security, Radar Systems and Commercial Unmanned Systems.

UV - Unmanned Vehicles

Paris Air Show: UAV inspection down under and beyond

15th June 2017

Boeing plans to offer its full-service UAV infrastructure inspection system internationally after more than a year of providing inspection for well heads, pipelines and processing ...
DH - Defence Helicopter

Paris Air Show: Boeing to ink EMD Chinook contract

14th June 2017

Boeing expects to ink the engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) contract for the manufacture of three CH-47F Block II aircraft before the end of August ...
DN - Defence Notes

Paris Air Show: New sting planned for Hornet

13th June 2017

Boeing is looking to take its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block III, based on the heritage of a 1970s platform, decades into the future with a ...
DN - Defence Notes

Paris Air Show: BTX focus on USAF competition

12th June 2017

Boeing believes there is a potential market of 2,000 aircraft for its Boeing T-X (BTX) trainer despite this the company remains focussed on its bidding ...
DH - Defence Helicopter

Paris Air Show: Boeing’s eagle eyes scan Australia

12th June 2017

Boeing has begun to plan for the likely early retirement of the Australian Army’s Tiger armed reconnaissance helicopter by considering such a requirement as a ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

DroneHome latest entry into unmanned infrastructure

9th June 2017

A challenge currently faced by some commercial rotary UAS operators, particularly for longer range pipeline or powerline inspection or large area surveillance, is the need ...
DN - Defence Notes

Boeing promotes more striking Eagle

18th May 2017

Boeing believes it has prospects and contracts for its F-15 Strike Eagle aircraft up until at least 2019 and likely beyond 2022. The company has ...
MLF - Military Logistics

First Pegasus delivery and Japanese contract before year end

17th May 2017

Boeing expects to deliver the first of its KC-46A PegasusKC-46A Pegasus multi-role tankers to the US Air Force (USAF) by the end of 2017 as ...
MTSN - Training/Simulation

Air-to-air refuelling training set for P-8

16th May 2017

Simulation training for air-to-air refuelling with Boeing Poseidon P-8 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) may begin before the end of August with the capability currently in ...
NWI - Naval Warfare

First Whidbey Island P-8 squadron cleared for flight

16th May 2017

The first Boeing Poseidon P-8A maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) squadron at US Naval Air Station Whidbey Island has gained Safe for Flight certification with an ...
DB - Digital Battlespace

Avalon 2017: JORN upgrade award imminent

3rd March 2017

A decision on the upgrade to Australia's Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) is imminent with the two bidding companies, Lockheed Martin Australia and BAE Systems ...
DB - Digital Battlespace

Avalon 2017: RAAF embarks upon road to Jericho

1st March 2017

Plan Jericho, an effort by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) to bring down walls between users and operators and create a fifth-generation fighting force, ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

Avalon 2017: Australian civil UAV usage surges

26th February 2017

Australian UAV operators expect substantial growth in the areas of agriculture and architecture/building operations before the end of the decade, according to a survey conducted ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

IDEX 2017: Avenger assembled

21st February 2017

Canadian robot and security company Med-Eng is displaying its new Avenger UGV at IDEX and has released more technical detail, less than a month after ...
MLF - Military Logistics

IDEX 2017: First KC-390 production aircraft en route

20th February 2017

The first air-to-air refueling dry contact between Embraer's new KC-390 multi-mission medium transport aircraft and a jet fighter took place on 19 February.The trial took ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

IDEX 2017: Chinese UGV mimics US system

19th February 2017

If the two unmanned ground vehicles pictured above seem similar, then you would not be wrong. In fact, they seem to have been separated at ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

IAA seek fines for unregulated drone use

9th November 2016

The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) is working with its government to introduce regulations which would allow it to fine drone operators as a final measure ...
DB - Digital Battlespace

Eurosatory: Elbit moves to dominate

16th June 2016

Israeli company Elbit Systems has unveiled improvements to its Dominator combat soldier communications suite at Eurosatory 2016 in Paris. The improved system has a new ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

Avalon 2015: Lockheed Martin goes shark hunting

26th February 2015

Trials are planned in the use of Lockheed Martin’s small Indago quad-rotor UAV for shark-spotting, it has emerged. The platform has an endurance of 45 ...
DN - Defence Notes

Avalon 2015: USAF confident F-35 will meet targets

25th February 2015

The re-baselining of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter programme has been successful and ongoing improvements in areas such as support and ...