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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced the successful first endurance flight of Predator XP, an advanced derivative of the mission-proven MQ-1 Predator RPA that has accumulated over two million flight hours since 1994. The flight launched on February 6 and landed on February 8 during a 40-
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In 2015 the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry will get an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the operational range of up to 290km. The information was released by Yuri Yatsyna, head of the R&D centre for UAV technologies of the Physics Technology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of
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The United States plans to sell 4 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles and other related equipment worth almost $340 million dollars to the Netherlands, US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a press release. The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Netherlands for
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NATO's new MQ-9 Reaper Users Group met for the first time in Paris last week to share cooperative ISR capabilities, French air force officials announced.USAF Reaper operators along with Britain's Royal Air Force, the French Armee de l'Air, and Italian Aeronautica Militare
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The Obama administration has denied a request from a leading U.S. defence contractor for a license to market its unarmed Predator to Jordan, whose requests for U.S.-made weapons are viewed as more urgent due its participation in the fight against the Islamic State. The contractor, General Atomics,
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The Obama administration rolled out a proposed Fiscal Year 2016 defence budget of $585.3 billion on February 2. Nearly $50 billion would be spent on aircraft and related systems during the fiscal year, which begins in October. Among the four services, the Air Force had the largest plus-up
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Northrop Grumman Corporation will begin production of four RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for the Republic of Korea's Air Force. The systems will provide valuable wide-area intelligence gathering capabilities to military commanders so they can make more informed decisions. Under a contract awarded Dec.
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Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) experts at BAE Systems are developing an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) sensor payload able to look for submerged enemy submarines by detecting small variations in the Earth's magnetic field. Officials of the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., announced an
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China has supplied at least one UAV, the Pterodactyl (Yilong-1), which was developed by China's Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group, to Uzbekistan.This was part of a series of contracts for the provision of defence equipment to these Central Asian countries were signed back in 2013. The purpose
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The wreckage of an armed drone turned up in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday near the epicenter of the West African country’s violent Islamist insurgency. A Borno State publication KSM News, published on Facebook that an unmanned drone suspected to be used in the counter-insurgency operation in the Northeast
Testing
The first full-size model of the Chirok (Teal) reconnaissance and strike drone is preparing for test flights. It was introduced last year at the Innoprom Expo on a 1:5 scale in Yekaterinburg. Now the full-size model is ready, sporting a wingspan of 10 meters. The Chirok is
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Tuscon, Arizona-based Brock Technologies has been testing a new line of small, tube-launched unmanned air system (UAS) that can provide 360 degree situational awareness with a distributed camera system. Recent tests in January 2015 have demonstrated its ability to be launched from a gas and electric UAS as