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The UN and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have long imposed a non-binding arms embargo on both Armenia and Azerbaijan, and both are under a de facto arms ban from the United States. But, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), this
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Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered a Global Hawkunmanned aircraft to the U.S. Air Force carrying the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), expanding airborne communications and information sharing among military units in harsh environments. Northrop Grumman produced and delivered the system four months ahead of schedule as part of an ongoing
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The UK will double the number of armed RAF Reapers in Afghanistan to 10 with the new aircraft to be operated remotely from Britain. A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman confirmed that pilots based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire would fly the five recently-bought unmanned aircraft. The hi-tech Reaper
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French President Francois Hollande Gets His Teeth into It France will move two unmanned surveillance aircraft to West Africa and is holding secretive talks with U.S. officials in Paris this week as it seeks to steer international military action to help Mali's feeble government win back the
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Switzerland has completed in-country flight evaluations of two Israeli unmanned aircraft systems, with a decision on its medium-altitude, long-endurance surveillance requirement expected to be made during 2014. Israel Aerospace Industries' Heron 1 (above) was tested by the Armasuisse procurement agency in September, with the activity having
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The CIA has urged the White House to boost the agency's armed UAS fleet to fight new North Africa al-Qaida threats, U.S. officials told The Washington Post. The request by CIA Director David H. Petraeus for up to 10 remotely piloted aircraft would strengthen Washington'
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IAI provided a demonstration of the Maritime Heron near Hadera on Sunday, a week before it is due to be showcased at the Euronaval defence conference in Paris. In doing so, the IAI also provided a sneak preview of some of the UAS technologies that are employed to safeguard Israel,
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David Rothkopf, a former Clinton administration official has written an article on the Foreign Policy website stating that U.S. and Israel have decided on a limited surgical strike on the alleged Iranian enrichment facilities. He quotes a close inside source as saying that the most likely action to be
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The leader of the Shia militant movement Hezbollah in Lebanon said his group is responsible for launching a UAS into Israel last week, and Iranians made it.Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said on the movement's television channel that the aircraft flew over "sensitive sites" in Israel. "
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The Polish Ministry of National Defence has cancelled a contract concluded in 2010 with the Israeli company Aeronautics Defense Systems for the supply of Aerostar medium-range unmanned aircraft. The company has once again failed to meet deadlines, in spite of their postponement for two years. Aeronautics was to begin
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Navmar Applied Sciences is being awarded a $41,463,854 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, cost reimbursable contract for a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project under Topics N92-170 “Laser Detection and Ranging Identification Demonstration”, N94-178 “Air Deployable Expendable Multi-parameter Environmental Probe”, and
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An anonymous Yemeni defence official, who was not authorized to speak with the press, tells Aviation Week that Yemen is receiving four AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven UAS. The 1.9-kg Raven is equipped with sensors for target acquisition, and infrared cameras capable of displaying persons carrying weapons. “This type