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A team at Webster Field Annex is working briskly to support an urgent Navy request to weaponize the MQ-8B Fire Scout, marking the first time the Navy will arm an unmanned aircraft. The Fire Scout team and NAVAIR’s structures rotary-wing division personnel conducted the first of a series of
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The US Air Force intends to place six of the Global Hawk Block 30 remotely piloted aircraft that it doesn’t want to operate beyond Fiscal 2012 into non-recoverable storage and another 12 into recoverable storage, said Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz on Tuesday. It's possible those
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Iran claims to have produced a new indigenous unmanned aircraft, which it apparently, “possesses high capabilities and versatile features to meet its objectives.” Reza Danandeh Hakamabad, the aeronautics engineer in charge of the project, said on Friday that the new remote-controlled aircraft, called Shaparak (Butterfly), has a maximum operational radius
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EADS company Cassidian confirms that it has halted work on the Talarion unmanned aircraft system programme, after failing to secure financial backing from potential future buyers. "Cassidian said several times during the last few months that we will only continue to invest in the Talarion programme if we would
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Israel Aerospace Industries has unveiled the prototype of its "Butterfly" unmanned aircraft system, as part of an effort to develop covert miniature equipment for use by Special Forces personnel. Shown for the first time on the opening day of the AUVSI Conference in Tel Aviv on 20 March,
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Insitu announced yesterday that it has signed a contract to deliver its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to the Netherlands to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) for the Ministry of Defense (MOD). The Netherlands will use ScanEagle with the MOD both domestically and abroad. “We’re excited to be
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The US Army has issued an RFI to obtain potential solutions to provide Nano Unmanned Aerial Systems (NUAS) capable of operating in various Army operational environments world-wide. Experience and information obtained from this request for information will be provided to the Director Rapid Equipping Force who will evaluate the information
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AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Md., was awarded an $180,900,000 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract. The award will provide for the sustainment services in support of the RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aircraft systems. Work will be performed in Hunt Valley, Md., Afghanistan and Australia with an estimated completion date of Oct. 31, 2012.
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US Air Force personnel discuss the various roles that come into play in controlling and operating Predators in the field. Source: You Tube
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AeroVironment, Inc. has announced it received a new $11,095,872 cost-plus-fixed-fee sole source contract award on March 1, 2012 from the United States Army. The order comprises Army, Marine Corps and Foreign Military Sales contractor logistics support for Raven systems. The logistics support services are scheduled to be delivered
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Soldiers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team (Task Force Spartan), 10th Mountain Division, have been taking the lead in operations, both on the ground and in the air, in southern Afghanistan for more than 11 months. The Unmanned Aerial Surveillance, or UAS, Platoon of B Company, 3rd Brigade Special Troops
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Tehran intends to build military unmanned aircraft in Washington's backyard for the Venezuelan military led by Hugo Chavez, U.S. Southern Command chief General Douglas Fraser told reporters last week during a breakfast meeting in Washington. Pressed about the unmanned aircrafts' capabilities, Fraser dubbed it "a