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DARPA has awarded Phase 1 contracts for its Gremlins program, which seeks to develop innovative technologies and systems enabling aircraft to launch volleys of low-cost, reusable unmanned air systems (UAS) and safely and reliably retrieve them in mid-air. Such systems, or “gremlins,” would be deployed with a mixture
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The Australian Navy has indicated it sees a range of unmanned aerial vehicles as a way of greatly extending the range and performance of its patrol and combat functions over the huge area of ocean surrounding Australia. It has a tender to provide a maritime tactical unmanned aircraft system, to
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US attack and guided missile submarine are set to field miniature unmanned aerial vehicles that will act as the eyes and ears not only for the boats below water but also help special operations forces and strike aircraft target weapons, the Navy’s Director of Undersea Warfare told USNI News
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A series of North Korean unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) activities inside DPRK airspace were observed by the South Korean government, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said during a regular press briefing held on Tuesday. MND spokesperson Moon Sang-gyun said the South Korean military will destroy the drones with
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The US Air Force is continuing to invest in upgrades to the Global Hawk unmanned aerial system, most recently giving Northrop Grumman a $30.3 million contract modification for retrofits that will help several of the aircraft take over some of the duties carried out by the U-2 spy
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Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2 launched into a new era with its RQ-21A Blackjack flight into Class D airspace, over Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., March 21. Commonly only allowed to fly in restricted airspace, VMU-2 now has the expanded ability to integrate RQ-
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In 2009, after two weeks of being embedded as an independent journalist with a small team of U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, I ended up at Combat Outpost Monti, a 14-acre camp of tents, plywood huts, a few concrete bunkers and makeshift guard towers, and a helicopter landing area,
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China’s growing defence industry has quickly made a name for itself, especially in drones. Government produced CH-3 and CH-4 combat drones are already used worldwide, including by the Iraqi and Nigerian governments. Now NORINCO, one of the country’s largest state-owned corporations, is getting into the
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General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $53,825,727 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, undefinitized contract action for the MQ-9 Hybrid Release 1 integration. Contractor will provide the integration and initial fielding of new capabilities into the MQ-9 Block 5 aircraft.
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Indian defence forces have finalised a blueprint to procure more than 5,000 UAVs over the next 10 years for about US $3 billion, and tenders will be restricted to domestic companies that can tie up with foreign firms, said a Ministry of Defence source. Lack of industrial expertise, combined
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Missions for the Army and Air Force are unique enough that the services will likely need to fly their own separate unmanned platforms for the foreseeable future, according to service leaders. “I think the similarities and the cross talk is going to continue but we kind of have different mission
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) unveiled an upgraded model of the home-made Shahed 129 drone. The new model is equipped with satellite communication system, the IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said, Fars news agency reported March 14. Hajizadeh further said that the drone’