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The US Air Force's (USAF's) Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II combat aircraft completed its first air-to-air weapons test against an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target, the air force announced on 1 August.The USAF test pilot, Major Raven LeClair, launched an AIM-9X missile from an F-35A&
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Negotiations are under way concerning the potential procurement of tactical VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) UAV systems, according to an announcement by the Polish Armament Inspectorate. The technical requirements suggest that it is the Polish Navy, that is going to be the main user of the new platforms. The systems
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The US Marine Corps’ portion of the future vertical lift programme will be an optionally manned platform, the service’s deputy commandant for aviation says.While many have forecasted unmanned aircraft as the future of aviation, Lt Gen Jon “Dog” Davis believes the next generation of medium-lift, long-range rotorcraft should
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Iran has unveiled a new home-made drone which is claimed to be capable of jamming the enemies' communication systems. The drone was displayed in an exhibition of the Iranian Ground Force's latest achievements in Tehran. Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmadreza Pourdastan visited the exhibition on Monday.
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Meteor, the newest Israeli manufacturer of unmanned air vehicles, is developing an advanced medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) platform. Itzhak Nissan, the company’s co-founder and chief executive, confirms the existence of such a programme but declines to detail its specification. However, sources indicate that the MALE UAV will have an endurance
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Recently delivered UAVs may help to reach the ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he hopes that the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) recently delivered by the United States to Ukraine will contribute to the prevention of violations of the ceasefire in Donbas. "The Armed Forces
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Northrop Grumman Corporation's autonomous Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) surpassed 200,000 flight hours, reinforcing its status as the most effective high altitude, long endurance intelligence gathering aircraft in the world. The U.S. Air Force's Global Hawks logged 88 percent of the 200,000
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CyPhy Works announced that it has received an order for its Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications (PARC) System, from the U.S. Army's Rapid Equipping Force (REF). PARC, a tethered drone, addresses the need for a persistent eye-in-the-sky by flying for days at a time. In supporting U.
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The U.S. Navy will conduct two technology demonstrations of swarming unmanned vehicles over the next nine weeks, the chief of naval research said. The demonstrations in July and September will feature unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), respectively. The demonstration during the last week of July
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The UK Royal Navy's (RN's) unmanned aviation trials and development unit, 700X Naval Air Squadron (NAS), has started to take delivery of a series of sub-20 kg commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) mini unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to evaluate their performance and inform possible future acquisitions. The aspiration is
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Britain’s Royal Navy is to lose its only remotely piloted air systems capability when the current arrangement with Boeing to operate the ScanEagle platform expires next year. The US defense contractor has been operating the vehicle off the deck off a small number of British warships since June 2014,
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During the operation in Syria, the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces (VKO) has tested hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft, the RIA Novosti news agency reported, citing a top-ranking representative of the military-industrial complex. According to him, air drones equipped with hydrogen engines showed very good results during the test flights. The source told