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The U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk high altitude, long endurance autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) successfully completed Milestone C approval from the Defense Acquisition Executive.For the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC)-built Global Hawk program, Milestone C is a key incremental step in the Department of Defense&
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For an unprecedented third year in a row, the U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft program was officially awarded the Dr. James G. Roche Sustainment Excellence Award for most improved performance in aircraft maintenance and logistics readiness during a ceremony April 28 at the Pentagon.Northrop Grumman
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Surveillance UAS launched from Royal Navy ships could be sent to scour the Mediterranean as part of Britain’s effort to combat the migrant crisis, under plans being drawn up by defence chiefs. The Navy’s new ScanEagle remote-controlled aircraft would search for dangerously overloaded boats packed with people making
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California-based Arcturus UAV has unveiled a new iterative development of its Jump 20 vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle that it intends to pitch for a major US Department of Defense requirement. The development – Jump 20C – boasts modifications over earlier versions including a wingspan extended by 30cm (1ft) and
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The sun has set on the 163rd Reconnaissance Wing's MQ-1 Predator mission. The final mission of the California Air National Guard unit's Predator aircraft ended at 1528 Zulu time on April 1 after eight years, 230 days, nine hours and 30 minutes of consecutive flights without
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The X-47B successfully conducted the first ever Autonomous Aerial Refuelling (AAR) of an unmanned aircraft April 22, completing the final test objective under the Navy's Unmanned Combat Air System demonstration programme. While flying off the coast of Maryland and Virginia in the Atlantic Test Ranges, the X-47B connected
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This unmanned tiltrotor drone is able to take off and land vertically like a helicopter, while flying like an airplane. Able to stay in the air for up to six hours, the TR-60 can reach speeds of up to 500 kilometers an hour, making it the fastest of its kind
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The US Marine Future Warfighting Laboratory recently tested a new robot team that works together to look for objects, provide situational awareness, and hunt for “bad actors” on the battlefield. The test married a ground robot, like an iRobot PackBot, with a small six-rotor aerial drone that docked with it
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Russia is set to supply its Ptero-G0 unmanned aircraft systems not only to the Russian law enforcement agencies, but to its foreign partners, AFM-Servers, the developer and producer of the systems.Russia is planning to export its Ptero-G0 unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), according to the Director General of the developing
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The US Navy’s MQ-4C Triton UAS equipped with a new search radar completed its inaugural flight April 18 over Patuxent River air space. The radar, known as the Multi-Function Active Sensor (MFAS), is expected to greatly enhance maritime domain awareness by providing the MQ-4C with a 360-degree view of
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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has revived a plan to acquire a larger brigade-level unmanned air vehicle than its battalion-level Elbit Systems Skylark I-LE, according to sources. The requirement has been re-energised following analysis of the IDF’s operations in Gaza in 2014, after which it decided a larger UAV
Testing
A new milestone in the history of unmanned aircraft was made last week, as ‘Salty Dog 502′ the first drone designed to operate from US Navy carriers linked to a drogue of an Omega tanker off the coast of Maryland. The autonomous aerial refuelling (AAR) tests performed by the Unmanned