Poland's Ministry of Defence has launched a tender to acquire 12 sets of middle-range tactical unmanned aerial vehicles and 15 sets of mini-UAVs for the armed forces. The Ministry says it is aiming to significantly boost the military's surveillance capacity. All initial bids are
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Russian designers are proceeding with development of an unmanned "sixth-generation" fighter jet, former Air Force chief Pyotr Deinekin said Monday. "The sixth generation of aircraft will most likely be pilotless. Naturally, we are actively working on this, "Deinekin said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Rapere is a concept for an “intercept drone” designed to hunt down nearby drones, hover overhead and drop a tangle-line into their rotors, forcing them to crash. Its makers, a group of drone-industry veterans, have only released simple diagrams of how the device will work – above – and claim
The French Presidential palace confirmed on Tuesday that an alert was sparked at the Elysée Palace after a drone was seen flying over the building. During the night of Thursday into Friday, a drone was seen flying over the palace for a matter of seconds, prompting alarm among security teams,
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The Japan Ministry of Defence has selected two Northrop Grumman Corporation systems to enhance its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. Under a process known as type selection, the Japanese government chose the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft and the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system to
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2d3 Ltd has won a contract from the Netherlands MOD yesterday to upgrade the ScanEagle UAS motion imagery exploitation capability. The contract is for the delivery of two identical exploitation suites for use with the Insitu ScanEagle systems in service with the Dutch Army. The project consists of delivering updated
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Officials at NAVMAR Applied Sciences Corp. (NASC), a supplier of unmanned aircraft systems and professional engineering services, selected CAE in Montreal, Canada, as its preferred simulation and training provider for its TigerShark XP UAS. CAE, a provider of simulation and training for civil and military aviation, signed a strategic alliance
The US Air Force is increasing financial incentives for some remotely piloted aircraft pilots to encourage them to stay in service, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James announced last Thursday. The maximum amount of monthly incentive pay will be increased for RPA pilots in the 18X career field who opt
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An Austrian tourist got nabbed recently at the Amboseli National Park, when he was flying a UAV, ostensibly to take pictures from an elevated location to include in his holiday picture and video album. Little did he know, however, that the use of such contraptions is prohibited in Kenya and
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The German military intends to revive its controversial Euro Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle programme after it was cancelled in 2013 due to spiralling costs and airworthiness issues. Sources at the German Defence Ministry confirmed that the aircraft, developed by Northrop Grumman, would be "taken out of the garage"
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Domingo Urena–Raso, Executive Vice President of Military Aircraft for Airbus Defence and Space, told a conference that Airbus is planning to create a centre in Poland for designing and assembling Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for both military and civilian uses.Urena–Raso announced that Airbus would seek to cooperate