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Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith and Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare announced on Thursday that a second Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (TUAS) will be delivered to the army almost a year ahead of schedule. The TUAS systems, purchased from the US, comprises of five aircraft, ground control
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Before the launch of a top-secret spy satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, a fleet of small unmanned aircraft will be doing some spying of their own. RQ-11 Raven equipped with high-powered video cameras will fly around the craggy launch site northwest of Santa Barbara, scouring the
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This video, uploaded on March 24, 2012, shows the made-in-Iran UAS, known as “Pahpad”, taking off and operating from Hamah airbase in the city of Hama, in the West of Syria, north of Damascus. Hamah seems to be one of the most active regime’s airbases: a Syrian
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Australia's Cocos Islands territory could be used as a staging point for flights by United States unmanned surveillance aircraft over the South China Sea. Citing US and Australian sources, The Washington Post said that the Pentagon was eyeing the Indian Ocean territory's coral atolls as an
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The US Navy has set a weight-based threshold for who will operate unmanned aircraft, with UAS weighing more than 55 pounds (25 Kilos) being operated as adjuncts to manned systems, while operators of lighter aircraft will come from other corners of the service. Additionally, it’s expected that officers
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A team at Webster Field Annex is working briskly to support an urgent Navy request to weaponize the MQ-8B Fire Scout, marking the first time the Navy will arm an unmanned aircraft. The Fire Scout team and NAVAIR’s structures rotary-wing division personnel conducted the first of a
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The US Air Force intends to place six of the Global Hawk Block 30 remotely piloted aircraft that it doesn’t want to operate beyond Fiscal 2012 into non-recoverable storage and another 12 into recoverable storage, said Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz on Tuesday. It's possible
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Iran claims to have produced a new indigenous unmanned aircraft, which it apparently, “possesses high capabilities and versatile features to meet its objectives.” Reza Danandeh Hakamabad, the aeronautics engineer in charge of the project, said on Friday that the new remote-controlled aircraft, called Shaparak (Butterfly), has a maximum operational
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EADS company Cassidian confirms that it has halted work on the Talarion unmanned aircraft system programme, after failing to secure financial backing from potential future buyers. "Cassidian said several times during the last few months that we will only continue to invest in the Talarion programme if we would
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Israel Aerospace Industries has unveiled the prototype of its "Butterfly" unmanned aircraft system, as part of an effort to develop covert miniature equipment for use by Special Forces personnel. Shown for the first time on the opening day of the AUVSI Conference in Tel Aviv on 20 March,
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Insitu announced yesterday that it has signed a contract to deliver its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to the Netherlands to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) for the Ministry of Defense (MOD). The Netherlands will use ScanEagle with the MOD both domestically and abroad. “We’re excited to be
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The US Army has issued an RFI to obtain potential solutions to provide Nano Unmanned Aerial Systems (NUAS) capable of operating in various Army operational environments world-wide. Experience and information obtained from this request for information will be provided to the Director Rapid Equipping Force who will evaluate the