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Although the Australian industry is arguably not a major player in the global Unmanned Aircraft Systems marketplace, it nevertheless plays an important role in technology development and support of local programmes. The UAS industry has also been assisted by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) through the government/industry
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The Obama administration has begun consulting Congress on plans to sell Global Hawk surveillance planes to South Korea, which came close to all-out war with North Korea last year. Among those briefed have been the Senate's and House of Representatives' foreign affairs committees, which have jurisdiction
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AeroVironment, Inc. announced that it received a contract on June 29 from the U.S. Army Close Combat Weapons Systems (CCWS), Program Executive Office Missiles and Space (PEO MS). The $4,907,840 contract for the Switchblade agile munition includes engineering services and operational systems for deployment with the U.
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The goal of the Shrike programme is to demonstrate the feasibility and practicality of man-packable perch-and-stare micro air vehicles to provide real-time persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to small unit commanders. Shrike’s quadrotor design enables vertical takeoff, forward flight to an area of interest, vertical
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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is being awarded a $10,474,708 cost plus fixed fee contract for logistics in support of the Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) MQ-8B Fire Scout system. Logistic support services includes: logistics management, maintenance support, supply support, air
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AeroVironment, Inc. has introduced its lightweight and man-portable Shrike VTOL unmanned aircraft system. In August 2008 AeroVironment received $4.6M a contract from DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to develop a portable, stealthy, persistent perch and stare (SP2S) unmanned aircraft system. Shrike VTOL represents the conclusion of
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Indian Army has deployed Herons in Northern part of Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) to track the movement of Kashmiris. 16 Herons were originally supplied to the Indian Army in 2007 by IAI - 8 of which are thought to be operated out of several bases including Mansbal. “The UAS are fitted
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The US Army will mount the largest yet demonstration of manned and unmanned aircraft systems interoperability. The manned unmanned systems integration concept (Music) exercise will take place September 15 at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Music will demonstrate new manned-unmanned teaming concepts. These include the use of a universal ground-
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South Africa's Denel Dynamics plans to conduct the first flight of its prototype Seeker 400 in the first quarter of 2012, having announced the completion of manufacturing activities. Denel unveiled a mock-up of the Shadow 400 at the Africa Aerospace and Defence Show in Cape Town last
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Israel Aerospace Industries has completed development work on its Mini Panther tilt-rotor UAS, and has started offering the design to potential customers. "We are now beginning to market the system," said Avi Bleser, marketing manager of the company's Malat division. While he refused to identify
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The Canadian Heron Unmanned Aircraft Detachment, known as Task Force Erebus, deployed to Afghanistan in 2009, as it was clear by 2008 that the flow of information supporting counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan needed to grow in both quantity and quality. “Task Force Erebus is unique in what it has
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Northrop Grumman just released this “music video” compilation of images of its various unmanned systems in action. Nothing new – just for fun…! Source: YouTube