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A UND committee is holding off on approving an unmanned aircraft systems research project that would explore the potential for evaluating engineering projects from the air in Walsh County. Members of the university's UAS Research Compliance Committee want answers to questions they had regarding a project application submitted
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Continuing indecision by the governments of France, Germany and Italy over what type of Medium-Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial system (UAS) should be built by Europe is holding up signature of the long-awaited project definition (PD) contract. Meanwhile, the maker of the Reaper UAS that already serves with three
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Textron Systems Unmanned Systems is showing off its range of UAVs at the Paris Air Show as the company awaits decisions on two major contracts expected later this year. In November, the French DGA is expected to down-select a contractor to meet its tactical unmanned air system (TUAS) requirement, although
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Since 2014, two Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft have been temporarily deployed at Misawa air base. Within approximately six months, starting in July two more will be moved to Japan. They will be redeployed from the US military base in Guam in the Pacific Ocean to Japan this summer. Thus,
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The remotely piloted aircraft system demonstrated in 2014 its ability to fly in civilian airspace when it completed an 11-day flight test campaign.
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“MQ-9 proved instrumental in our efforts to coordinate resources and rescue migrants whose boats were incapacitated and were dangerously floating adrift,”
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Schiebel ́s CAMCOPTER S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) has in a series of flights between 2 and 12 June 2015 successfully demonstrated its multi- sensor capability to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and other Australian Government Departments. The demanding trials took place near Nowra, on the South East Coast of
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Cobham Aviation Services (Cobham) and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) have signed a Teaming Agreement at the Paris Airshow to create an affiliation covering whole life support arrangements for GA-ASI products in the UK and Australia.The teaming arrangement focuses on the provision of support for the Predator B
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Boeing is currently working through the final clearances ahead of a planned demonstration of its H-6U Unmanned Little Bird (ULB) helicopter for the South Korean armed forces, a senior company official disclosed. Speaking to reporters ahead of the Paris Air Show, Dave Koopersmith, Vice-President and General Manager of Boeing Military
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The MQ-4C Triton takes off from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., April 16, to conduct its first test flight from the naval base. Credit: NAVAIR Source: YouTube
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The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has completed some phases of a process that will lead to implementing automatic takeoff and landing in its Heron-1 and Hermes-900 unmanned air systems. This capability is now used in the IAF “White Eagle” squadron operating the force’s largest UAS the Heron-TP (Eitan). The
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Expanding NATO's joint intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability, Northrop Grumman Corporation and its industry partners together with NATO leaders unveiled the first NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) aircraft to an audience of customers, distinguished guests, employees and community leaders. The unmanned aircraft, a wide area surveillance Global