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As the world watched the last convoy pass through the gates at Khabari Crossing on the Kuwait-Iraq border, they may not have realized those on the ground had some help in the skies from airmen with a historic lineage. Colonel Rodney Petithomme, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group commander, and Lieutenant Colonel
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The US Air Force is planning to develop a heavier, more powerful version of the jet-powered, reduced signature Predator C Avenger for deployment soon in combat zones. “General Atomics Systems Inc. has shown the ability and willingness to quickly ramp up production capacity if the Air Force and other customers
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Australia's Defense Department removed three major projects, including the Joint 129 Phase 2 project for tactical unmanned aircraft, from its official list of contracts falling behind schedule or having cost overruns. The announcement was made by the Minister for Defense Stephen Smith and Minister for Defense Materiel Jason
Lighter Than Air
The Rapid Equipping Force (REF) has a requirement to purchase Unmanned Aircraft System to support Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Shortfalls in the environmentally inhospitable operating environment of Afghanistan. This requirement includes a requirement for operators and Field Service Representatives (FSRs) to provide FSR support and new equipment training. The
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The sale of as many as four Northrop Grumman Global Hawks to help improve South Korea’s reconnaissance capability may have stalled. South Korea has raised concerns about the price of the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Block 30I Global Hawk unmanned aircraft and could open a tender for a high-altitude, long-endurance
Testing
The US Marine Corps flew two unmanned K-MAX helicopter test flights out to one of the forward operating bases in Afghanistan without a load on December 15 and 16. Lockheed Martin’s Jeffrey Brown teold Aviation Week. “These flights were test flights in preparation for sustained operations.” Built as a
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Take everything that Iran says about its captured US drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn’t implausible. It’s possible to spoof unencrypted civilian GPS systems. But military GPS receivers, such as the one likely installed on
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An internal review of the US Air Force's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities indicates the need for unmanned aircraft systems that can survive in contested airspace, as well as improved data processing and greater capacity for movement and dissemination of that data, according to a senior service
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A new Pentagon study shows that almost 30 percent of UAS pilots surveyed suffer from what the military calls "burnout." It's the first time the military has tried to measure the psychological impact of waging a "remote-controlled war." Around 1,100 Air Force pilots
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“Grusha” unmanned aircraft produced by the Izhmash concern have entered the inventory of Russia’s Baltic Fleet. Industrial experts state that the Grusha meets the global standards set for of mini-class unmanned aircraft. Their main functions are surveillance and reconnaissance up to a range of about 10 km. The new
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The US military’s deployment of MQ-9 Reaper UAS to the Seychelles, a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean, generated $3.1 million in revenue for local businesses during their first four months of operations, according to an unclassified US diplomatic cable buried in the database of State Department cables
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L2 Aerospace’s Instant Eyes is a 9-inch UAS, can be set up and launched in about 20 seconds, reaching up to 2,500 feet high. When it hits its target altitude, it deploys a sensor platform with a parachute, which takes five-megapixel images of the ground below and transmits