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India's Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticised the nation's Air Force for failing to keep two Israeli-supplied aerostat-based radars in operational condition. The equipment was acquired for a combined total of 676 million Indian Rupees ($14 million). One of the systems was damaged in 2009,
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The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret unmanned aircraft bases for counter-terrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen. One of the installations is being established in Ethiopia, a US
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According to an executive at Turkish Aerospace Industries, the new Egyptian government is interested in buying unmanned aircraft made in Turkey. Some Middle East countries prefer Turkey rather than Israel or the US, defence experts say. Egypt is interested in buying the Anka UAS from Turkish Aerospace Industries. Egyptian and
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The fastest-growing occupation in the US Air Force — warzone surveillance — soon may be reaching its peak as the Defense Department looks for ways to cut costs. The deployment of Air Force remotely piloted aircraft across Iraq and Afghanistan grew rapidly over the past eight years, at the same time that
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Qinetiq has joined forces with Northrop Grumman to offer what it has described as a low-cost, short-term solution for an emerging Royal Navy requirement to field a vertical take-off and landing unmanned aircraft system (VTUAS).The companies are proposing a demonstration programme which would take one of the UK'
Business
The US Naval Air Systems Command seeks proposals for research support in developing innovative solutions for the Maritime and Littoral Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission requirements. The Medium Range Maritime Unmanned Aerial System (MRMUAS) will be a Multi-Intelligence (MultiINT), reconfigurable platform capable of operating from all air-capable ships. Concepts
Accidents
A Predator came down on Sunday in Zangarha village in South Waziristan, near the Taliban and al-Qaeda hideouts in the rocky region bordering Afghanistan. A military intelligence official based in the nearest city, Wana, said that the aircraft suffered a mechanical failure. The Pakistani Taliban, a domestic offshoot of the
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The UK Ministry of Defence has outlined its planned schedule to field a follow-on batch of five General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft, and revealed details of the operational demands being placed on the Royal Air Force's current fleet. RAF Reapers have flown missions totalling more
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The OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, AH-64D Apache Longbow and MQ-1C Gray Eagle land at Michael Army Airfield, Utah, Sept. 16, 2011, after the Manned Unmanned. The aircraft joined with the RQ-11B Raven and MQ-5B Hunter to demonstrate their interoperability during the MUSIC Exercise Sept. 16, 2011. “MUSIC is intended to be
Testing
MBDA has advanced development and test activities for its Fire Shadow loitering munition design, and is on track to deliver its first operational examples to the British Army in 2012. Two significant test firings have been conducted since late last year, the European missile manufacturer announced during the Defence &
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Britain and France have extended cooperation on UAS technology to an unmanned replacement for fighter aircraft, Peter Luff, the U.K. defence-procurement minister, said on Wednesday at a military trade fair in London. Jointly producing an unmanned combat air vehicle or UCAV would result in “genuine” cost savings and efficiencies
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Germany could be within weeks of making a decision that will have a major influence on the viability of Cassidian’s Talarion UAS programme, while the EADS company is maintaining its call for France and the UK to also become involved. A long-proposed solution for the UAS requirements of France,