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The Swedish Armed Forces is planning to acquire a new mini UAV system. The intention is to complement, and thereafter replace, the SkyLark system which has been operational in the Swedish Armed Forces since 2007. The purpose is to support the Swedish Armed Forces with short-range reconnaissance information. The FMV
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Thales and DCNS are planning supplementary technology demonstrations of a system for automatic ship deck landing of unmanned aircraft. The decision is the result of a go-ahead from the DGA (French Defence Procurement Authority) -- a follow-on from the successful landing and deck-landing trials conducted in the United States last
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MBDA Incorporated, a US missile company, has developed a soldier-carried and hand-launched Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) precision-guided weapon called TiGER. TiGER is a small, weaponised UAS designed to be used at the unit level to engage enemies with an onboard dual 40mm warhead. Using two onboard video cameras to relay images back
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India's defence ministry is accelerating the selection process to acquire two types of micro and mini unmanned air systems for use by its army's northern command along the nation's border with Pakistan. Twenty systems of each type will be purchased under an urgent operational
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Bowing under economical burden the German Government plans deep cuts in defence spending, dramatically reducing planned procurement of main weapon systems and platforms.Among the planned cuts recommended by German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere is the reduction of the number of unmanned aircraft systems from 22 to 16 (the
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The US Air Force has been secretly flying Reaper aircraft on counter-terrorism missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding US-led proxy war against an al-Qaeda affiliate in East Africa, US.military officials said. The Air Force has invested millions of dollars to
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Orbiter AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems announced yesterday that it has delivered an Aerosonde Mark 4.7 Small Unmanned Aircraft System and an Orbiter Miniature Unmanned Aircraft System to the US Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC). The systems will support the five-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA)
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Orbiter The two Israeli companies still contesting the Finnish armed forces' competition to select an unmanned aircraft system face two more rounds of evaluation. One will be held in Finland and the other in Israel within the coming weeks. Finnish evaluators will use the phase in Israel to learn
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Northrop Grumman believes that the contract award for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system is now on track to be completed in early November.Negotiations for six Northrop RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems have dragged on for a year past the original deadline of October 2010. Meanwhile, the
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The Royal Thai Air Force is evaluating the G-Star unmanned aircraft system which is based on Innocon's MiniFalcon-2. The G-Star has a twin boom fuselage and boasts a maximum take-off weight of 220kg, compared with the MiniFalcon-2's MTOW of 200kg. G-Star is the outcome of a
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As anticipated, Northrop Grumman has signed MoUs with four South Korean companies to participate in the RQ-4 Global Hawk programme during the Seoul Air Show in South Korea. The MOU signings will enable the Northrop Grumman Korea Global Hawk team -- composed of Northrop Grumman, Dreaming and Challenging Company, FIRSTEC,
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Photo: Courtesy AeroVironment, Inc. AeroVironment, Inc. announced yesterday that it has received a $7,298,530 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the United States Army. This contract establishes a not-to-exceed amount for digital Puma All Environment (AE) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) contractor logistics support services in support of a Joint Urgent Operational