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In this video, Syrian rebels show off three small, unmanned surveillance aircraft that they say they downed. Walking a viewer through what looks like a machinist shop displaying their banner, the Syrians display two robotic planes built around a missile-shaped fuselage, appearing to be around six feet in length, painted
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Cassidian is in discussions with the German Ministry of Defence concerning additional flight demonstrations under a programme to develop technology for future unmanned, surveillance and strike aircraft. EADS conducted the latest campaign of flights with its Barracuda unmanned aircraft demonstrator in Goose Bay, Canada, in July. The tests focused on
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Insitu Inc. announced today that its Netherlands customer is now authorized to fly the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) under a limited military aircraft type-classification certificate from the Military Aviation Authority (MAA) of the Netherlands. “We understood the urgency of obtaining this limited military-type certificate for our customer to operate
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South Korea has allocated a budget of budget of $440M (500 billion Won) to develop unmanned combat aircraft."We're developing next-generation combat UAS and reconnaissance UAS simultaneously for Army units," a military source said on Monday. "About W500 billion has been earmarked for the projects.
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"This is another tremendous milestone for the Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System. It continues to build on its reputation as the workhorse for Army UAS."
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"A drone is nothing more than a plane without a pilot," Germany's Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere told the daily "Die Welt" in an article on Saturday. He said he that was in favour of the German armed forces using armed unmanned aircraft. "
Military
Elbit Systems Ltd. and TASE: ESLT, announced over the weekend that it was awarded a contract valued at many tens of millions of dollars, to supply a Latin American customer with a mixed fleet of Hermes 900 and Hermes 450 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The contract will be performed over
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Not many people have seen the X-47B up close: its Northrop Grumman manufacturers and its remote Navy test pilots, mostly. Until Tuesday, when the Navy Programme Executive Office in charge of developing what will be known as the UCLASS — for Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike System — let reporters
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Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., will showcase the Skylark I-LE Block II’s capabilities at next week’s trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 6-9, 2012.The Skylark I-LE Block II offers cutting edge technology designed to assist warfighters, homeland security
VTOL
The US Navy has detailed causes of two crashes of the Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout that led to an 'operational pause' in flights of the aircraft. Both crashes occurred independently of one another and involved different systems of the rotary-wing, vertical takeoff unmanned air vehicle (VTUAV). The
VTOL
U.S. Marine Corps officials have extended the deployment of the K-MAX Cargo. The Marine Corps supplies forward operating bases with K-MAX, rather than with a ground convoy or manned aircraft, to reduce the threat posed to personnel by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). K-MAX Cargo, jointly designed and developed by
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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is offering an upgraded version of its best-selling unmanned air system (UAS), with the Heron NG to carry an enhanced multi-sensor payload. Representing the fourth "spiral" development of the Heron, the NG has been designed to more effectively meet the operational requirements of IAI&