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Sagem has received a follow-on order to supply the French army with five Sperwer Mk II tactical unmanned aircraft, with deliveries to conclude by mid-2013. Placed by France's DGA Defence Procurement Agency under an option included in a three-aircraft order signed in February 2011, the deal "will
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AeroVironment has received a firm fixed-price order for 12 hybrid small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (Försvarets Materielverk) on behalf of the Swedish Army. The order consists of Puma AE and Wasp aircraft, ground stations, training, and logistics support. The order is the result of
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Poland’s Ministry of Defence has announced plans to acquire between 123 and 205 UAS by 2018, reported local newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, at a cost of at least 1 billion zloty ($295 million). With the planned acquisition, the Polish ministry aims to establish a new military unit within the structure
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After a consultation to respond to an operational emergency, a tender has been won by INFOTRON and TOSA, and several systems have been ordered by the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) for the French Army. These systems provide advanced observation and detection capabilities for the Engineer Units, particularly in the
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Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2 performing the first ever mid flight, unmanned helicopter external cargo hook ups, or "hot Hook Ups", with landing support team Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 5. Produced by Corporal Lisa M. Tourtelot, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Source: YouTube
VTOL
BCB/AAI SQ-4 RECON Nano UAS Unmanned Aircraft for “Over the Hill” Observation and Reconnaissance was on display at the Textron/AAI stand at NDIA Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2012 at Tampa Florida recently. Weighing in from just 198 grams, the SQ-4 RECON system offers a lightweight vertical takeoff
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that it has signed a contract to provide training support to the British Army. The training support will include acquiring video using small Unmanned Aircraft Systems. The video will be transmitted in real-time to soldiers' remote terminals, allowing them to be trained in
Business
Russia could be buying more unmanned aircraft from Israel as part of a new $50 million package negotiated with Israel’s third UAS manufacturer Aeronautics Ltd. Russia has been a customer of Aeronautics since the early 2000s, with first acquisitions of Aerostar UAS and Skystar aerostats in 2004-2006 for homeland
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AeroVironment, Inc. announced it received a $15,813,406 firm fixed-price authorization to perform on May 22, 2012 from the United States Army as the initial portion of a contract action with a total projected value of $65,889,191. The order includes RQ-11B Raven systems, new miniature gimbaled payloads
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France’s new defence minister said he’ll “go back to square one” on plans to build unmanned military aircraft.“I want to start afresh,” Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in Paris at his first press conference since being sworn in May 17. “I want to move fast, but
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Northrop Grumman Corporation and L-3 MAS announced plans to join forces on a variant of the Northrop Grumman-produced Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for Canada to maintain continuous surveillance of its Arctic territories. Dubbed "Polar Hawk," the system will be designed to stay aloft
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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Aerospace Systems is being awarded a $32,774,936 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-08-C-0023) in support of the broad area maritime surveillance unmanned aircraft system system development and demonstration. This modification provides for a maintenance concept change that will allow for the development