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
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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
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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.
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
Events
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
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The evolving future of US Army aviation will be on display September 15-16 at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, as three of the service’s project offices—Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Apache Attack Helicopter and Armed Scout Helicopter—stage an exercise demonstrating how manned and unmanned aircraft can work together in
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The Obama administration has turned down a Turkish request for the deployment of US Predators at Turkish bases until Ankara stops threatening Israel with armed attack, according to DEBKAfile. Turkey has no functioning unmanned aircraft at present. Israeli officialdom and military chiefs are doing their utmost to keep the lid
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Northrop Grumman has introduced an unmanned aircraft data management system to the European market, to allow troops on the ground to "eliminate the tunnel-vision of the battlefield". The HART (Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team) allows soldiers at small unit level without their own UAS to benefit from the
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Following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s complaint last week that Israel delayed the delivery of Herons that Turkey sent to the country for maintenance, a new report revealed that Turkey has been dealing with Israel on maintenance issues for a long time. Ankara purchased three Aerostars from Israeli company
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South Korea’s plan to acquire four Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Block 30 Global Hawks,has moved a step closer. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency is likely to notify Congress in the coming weeks about the possible sale of the aircraft and one ground system. US government officials familiar
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The Obama administration is considering a request from Turkey to base a fleet of Predators on Turkish soil for counterterrorism operations in northern Iraq. The decision could strengthen a diplomatic alliance but drag the United States deeper into a regional conflict. The U.S. military has flown unarmed Predators from