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The US Air Force has sent into space a satellite that is expected to improve communications with unmanned military aircraft in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Officials say a Delta 4 rocket carried the WGS 4 satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:38 p.m. last
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The LONGBOW Limited Liability Company, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Corporation received a $181 million contract from the U.S. Army for AH-64D Apache Block III LONGBOW systems. The contract includes the first international purchase of the Block III LONGBOW Fire Control Radar (FCR) by
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U.S. Navy leaders needed an electronics contract manufacturing specialist to build signal data processor-Sierra (SDP-S) systems for the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) programme, which blends radar information from several different Navy systems to create one common air defense tactical display, or "air picture," which is
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The US Army's MQ-5B Hunter unmanned ISR aircraft will be reset by Northrop Grumman from C-Band communications to a tactical common data link. The work comes under two contractor logistics support contract modifications worth $91.2 million. Each features a one-year performance period. Northrop Grumman,
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Rockwell Collins is collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) control and non-payload communications (CNPC) data link that will eventually enable unmanned aircraft to safely operate in the national airspace. “The reason we were selected is because we’re one
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Pakistan has been able to hack UAS technology to the extent that it can now command a transgressing aircraft to land in Pakistan, reliable sources told the Pakistan Observer. This achievement by Pakistan is utmost significant amid desperate scenario that emerged as a result of attacks inside Pakistan by the
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Privately-owned Israeli company, IMC Microwave Industries, has developed a data link that will enable an operator to control a loitering weapon system even when it begins its dive towards a target. Until now, the company has been operating under heavy secrecy, but Flightglobal was allowed to visit the company
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Harris Corporation is broadening the capabilities of its RF-7800T Situational Awareness Video Receiver (SAVR) to address growing requirements for secure wireless digital intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance video at the tactical edge. Harris has integrated the Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Digital Data Link (SUAS-DDL) waveform with the RF-7800T
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A move to a new standard communications band is needed because of a saturation of current bandwidth, French Air Chief of Staff Genenral Jean-Paul Palomeros said at a briefing in Dubai on November 12. Increasingly relied-upon unmanned aircraft such as Predators, Reapers and the French Harfang generate huge
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The LONGBOW LLC's Unmanned Aerial Systems Tactical Common Data Link Assembly (UTA) recently controlled an unmanned aircraft from an AH-64D Apache Block III attack helicopter, while both were in flight. The LONGBOW LLC is a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. During flight tests, the
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The US Navy completed a demonstration for its unmanned aircraft Common Control System (CCS) Oct. 26 at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California. Led by the Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons (PEO(U&W)), CCS is a software-only solution with
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The US Air Force and US Army agreed on new safety procedures to help prevent another collision between army UAS and Air Force planes. The Army and Air Force have long argued about such restrictions (about where, and when, army UAS could fly), but the August 15 collision between an