Military
The Israel Air Force has this week marked 40 years since the establishment of its first Unmanned Aircraft Systems Squadron 200, at the IAF base in Palmachim. To mark the occasion, a ceremony was held in the presence of current and veteran squadron members, including IAF Commander Major General Ido
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The British Army's Watchkeeper programme has made sufficient recent progress to escape inclusion on the UK Ministry of Defence's new Projects of Concern list, defence secretary Dr Liam Fox has confirmed.Aiming to deliver a fleet of WK450 air vehicles and associated equipment for tactical intelligence,
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ThalesRaytheonSystems has announced that the US Army will procure 56 Improved Sentinel Battlefield Air Defense AN/MPQ-64 Radars. The company has already delivered more than 220 radars to customers worldwide and is working with several allied nations to leverage the current production to meet their sensing requirements. The AN/MPQ-64
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The Chinese Xianglong ‘Soaring Dragon’ was recently seen at Chengdu seemingly prepared for a first test flight. The Soaring Dragon uses an innovative ‘joined wing’ design, employing a conventional swept wing joined with a forward swept wing. A model depicting this configuration was shown at the Zuhai China Airshow 2006.
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Taiwan-developed unmanned aircraft will be commissioned early next year as part of the military's efforts to build up asymmetric/innovative defense capabilities, a local newspaper reported on Monday. A total of 32 UAS have been produced in the initial stage, with eight to be deployed in each of
VTOL
Northrop Grumman Corp., San Diego, California, is being awarded an $18,650,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services in support of the deployment of the MQ-8B vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle. Work will be performed in Afghanistan (90 percent) and Patuxent River, Maryland (10
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Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp., Atlanta, Ga., is being awarded a $25,135,974 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery, requirements contract for ground-based sensors for remotely controlled aircraft. ESG/PKS, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., is the contracting activity (HC1047-05-D-4000 0201). Source: Laser Focus World
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Northrop Grumman Corp., Aerospace System, San Jose, California, is being awarded an estimated $54,227,582 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification. The award is to provide logistics support activities required to support the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle fielded systems and subsystems used in peacetime operations, which includes fielded air vehicles, engines,
Events
Nick Miller, Thales Business Director for ISTAR and Unmanned Aircraft, presents the Watchkeeper's capabilities and production schedule. The interview was filmed recently at the DSEi 2011 in England Source: Flight Global
Business
Wyle Laboratories, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama, is being awarded a $44,953,376 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity requirements contract.The contract is to provide development of reliability improvement processes and successful implementation to enhance readiness while reducing life-cycle costs for unmanned aerial systems programs utilizing reliability, maintainability, quality, supporting ability, and interoperability
Military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Poway, California, is being awarded a $21,618,560 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for expedited contractor support that is mandatory to meet urgent service operational requirements for the Predator and Reaper programs. ASC/WIIK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-10-G-3038-0040). Source: Laser Focus
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The Korean Government may abandon a plan to buy Global Hawks because their price is way higher than the budget. The government and military have aggressively pushed to buy the Global Hawk since 2005 to build up South Korea's own reconnaissance capabilities in preparation for the handover of