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Finland's Defence Ministry has selected Aeronautics Defense Systems' Orbiter 2 unmanned aircraft system for its operational needs. A €23 million ($30 million) contract is in the final approval phase and is expected to be signed soon. According to Finnish sources, the deal will include 55 mini UAS,
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Global Hawk Block 30 Why is the US Air Force seeking to scrap its Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned reconnaissance planes? A new white paper Global Hawk Block 30 and Defense Strategy suggests the move is out of step with the Asia-Pacific strategy. Global Hawk Block 30s fly as
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Hezbollah has been allocating increased resources towards bolstering its UAS unit, Yedioth Ahronoth reported last week. The Shiite terror groups reportedly plans to use its unmanned aircraft to attack Israel in case it mounts a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. Hezbollah is equipped with Ababil ("Swallow&
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Schiebel's CAMCOPTER S-100 has become the first UAS to ever fly from an Italian Navy ship. The S-100 was flown from the ITS Bersagliere, a Soldati Class frigate and successfully carried out a number of missions for observers from the Italian Navy. From the Italian Navy
Control Stations
Boeing has completed the first delivery of its tactical cross-domain technology, eXMeritus HardwareWall, to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) for integration into the Ground Control Station (GCS) of the Predator/Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft. The delivery is part of a contract from GA-ASI that includes additional
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AeroVironment, Inc. announced it received a firm fixed-price order valued at $3,653,519 on March 15, 2012 from the United States Marine Corps through an existing U.S. Army contract. The order includes RQ-11B Raven small unmanned aircraft systems and initial spares packages. The systems and spares
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CNN posted this report which features the White House Counter-Terrorism Adviser, John Brennan. He discusses the internal process involved in taking the decision when, and whether or not, to authorise a lethal UAS strike. Source: CNN
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One part bazooka round; one part suicidal drone; one part stun round. What the U.S. Army hopes will emerge from that mix is a warhead that can loiter in midair while it hunts a human target — but won’t kill him when it finds him. That “Nonlethal Warhead for
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Russia will test fly its first domestically-produced strike unmanned aircraft in 2014, according to First Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Sukhorukov. In February, Army General Nikolay Makarov, the chief of the Russian General Staff, said the drone would be first test flied in late 2012, a revision of the initial
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Holloman Air Force Base is home to the first two new aviation gasoline trucks in Air Combat Command's inventory that were specifically designed to support the MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft. "They were uniquely designed, ordered, and built for the MQ-1 mission here," said
Take-Off & Landing
This 15-minute video shows an MQ-9 Reaper taking off and landing at Wheeler Sack Army Airfield (WSAAF) at Fort Drum, New York on 05 April 2012. The MQ-9 is from the 174th Fighter Wing which launches and recovers its aircraft at WSAAF. The video was shot by
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AeroVironment has announced that the U.S. Marine Corps is the first military service to adopt four different small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from the company with the receipt of a firm fixed-price order valued at $5,558,479 for the RQ-20A Puma AE through an existing U.