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"A good number" of unmanned US military and intelligence unmanned aircraft are operating in the skies over Syria, monitoring the Syrian military's attacks against opposition forces and innocent civilians alike, US defence officials told NBC News' Jim Miklaszewski. The officials said this surveillance is not
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An Indian Navy unmanned aircraft crashed into a hill at Ganesh Nagar, Vizag, near Gajuwaka RTC depot on Thursday afternoon with residents in the area that is close to Eastern Naval Command (ENC) grateful that a major tragedy had been averted. Several factories, like HPCL, Coromandel and Zinc are located
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Insitu Inc. has announced that it has delivered and flown one of two Integrator Unmanned Aircraft Systems that will provide the U.S. Marine Corps an early operational capability for the Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) programme. "The Integrator system delivery at Twentynine Palms, just less than a
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Bell/Northrop Grumman MQ-8C 'Fire X'The US Navy has cancelled its medium-range maritime unmanned air system (MRMUAS) programme, which was to produce a vertical-lift UAS to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services for up to 8 hours. The contest was hotly anticipated by established companies including Boeing,
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Officials of the US Department of Defense (DoD) plan to spend at least $5.78 billion to buy and develop unmanned vehicles and unmanned vehicle payloads next year, according to data in the Pentagon's budget documents released this week. This figure is down 13.14 percent from the
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DARPA is looking to develop an advanced communications backbone to support dismounted warfighters in austere locations. Providing high-bandwidth communications for troops in remote forward operating locations is not only critical but also challenging because a reliable infrastructure optimized for remote geographic areas does not exist. When you introduce additional needs,
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UVision Air Ltd. has unveiled the Blade Arrow Precision Attack Munition (PAM) five years after it was first demonstrated. The PAM concept brings new offensive capabilities for precision strike of high-value and time- sensitive targets, in complex terrain and urban background. UVision’s Blade Arrow provides long range, highly flexible
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When HMCS Charlottetown deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for Operation ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR, she took with her a potent surveillance and reconnaissance capability that is new to Canadian warships: the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, a small, low-cost, long-endurance UAS built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing. Among her many tasks during this
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An unmanned aircraft is likely to be pressed into service in the Visakha agency and the border districts of the Indian state to help in intelligence gathering on a real-time basis. The UAS base will be set up at Madurapuddi near Rajahmundry. A senior official of Special Intelligence Branch (SIB)
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Fire Scout Over Frigate McInerney - Photo:MC2 Alan Gragg, US NavyReservists are at the controls of the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter for the aircraft’s deployment to Western Africa. As part of an effort to determine manning for the unmanned aircraft, reserve officers will fly Fire Scout and
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RQ-4B Global Hawk Block 40 Photo: Northrop Grumman The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed on Friday to acquire its first fleet of unarmed unmanned aircraft under a long-sought deal that defence officials said would help fill a gap in alliance surveillance capabilities exposed by last year's military campaign
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MQM-107D Streaker The North Korean military is developing unmanned "suicide" attack aircraft to target South Korean troops on the northwestern islands, a South Korean Army source claimed Sunday. The South Korean military in turn plans to procure all-weather unmanned tactical dirigibles capable of carrying out reconnaissance missions even