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The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) will double the number of MQ-9A Remotely Piloted Aircraft they will procure, taking the total order from four to eight aircraft. The first four MQ-9A Block 5 Reapers and associated Ground Control Stations were delivered to the RNLAF in 2022. MQ-9A is designed and
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Iran has unveiled a new drone that it says is capable of striking targets in Israel. The Iranian Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics unveiled the Mohajer-10 on Tuesday as part of an exhibition and ceremonies marking Defence Industry Day. President Ebrahim Raisi and senior commanders in the army
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Soltsy-2 airbase, which is home to Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire swing-wing bombers, was hit by a drone strike yesterday. Images of black smoking billowing from the base further solidified those reports, but it wasn't clear what was burning. Now, photos have emerged that show a Tu-22M3 engulfed in flames
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In another self-funded effort, private Russian companies, engineers, and academia have produced a new kamikaze drone (suicide drone or loitering munition), Gastello, based on a First-Person View (FPV) operating module. The development resulted from feedback from frontline troops employing other such Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and distinguished itself by using
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Rheinmetall's next-generation LUNA-NG air-supported short-range reconnaissance system will soon be in action in Ukraine. The system should be ready for delivery in the course of 2023. The order now placed is worth a low double-digit million euro amount. Rheinmetall is therefore making another important contribution to enhancing the
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The Come Back Alive Competent Army Assistance Fund, the UNITED24 fundraising platform and monobank co-launched the Operation Unity fundraising project to purchase 10,000 kamikaze drones for Ukraine’s Defense Forces. "This war is a technology fight. Starlinks, naval drones, situational awareness systems, unmanned aerial vehicles — all this has
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The MQ-8C Fire Scout, a variant of the MQ-8B, is an unmanned aerial vehicle used for expeditionary operations aboard ships. The Navy’s only unmanned helicopter, which can be deployable from land or sea, provides target-acquisition, real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to the men and women of the US Navy
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) advanced its ability to operationalize the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) ecosystem by combining advanced autonomy and government-provided human-machine interface (HMI) hardware. A GA-ASI-owned Avenger Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) was paired with “digital twin” aircraft to autonomously conduct Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) multi-objective
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India in recent months has barred domestic manufacturers of military drones from using components made in China over concerns about security vulnerabilities, according to four defence and industry officials and tender documents. The measure comes amid tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours and as New Delhi pursues a military modernisation programme
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Drones are becoming an indispensable weapon in Ukraine’s fight to expel Russian invasion forces from its territory, with commercial, off-the-shelf quadcopters serving as eyes in the skies for Ukrainian front-line forces. To end reliance on foreign-made drones, Ukraine is ramping up its own drone manufacturing base. Around 200 companies
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Ukrainian volunteers collecting donations for the army, Serhiy Prytula and Serhiy Sternenko, showed kamikaze drones that are being used to attack strategic sites in Moscow. Prytyla and Sternenko pictured themselves in front of the drones, threatening Moscow residents and calling on them to go to bomb shelters and watch how
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The Russian Federation already uses kamikaze drones of its own production based on Iranian Shahed for strikes on Ukraine: we will explain what is known about them... At the beginning of July of this year, after one of the night attacks of the occupiers by Iranian kamikaze drones of the