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Iran's Revolutionary Guard denied on Friday that it shot down an unmanned American aircraft over a uranium enrichment site, saying that its air defences had only hit a test target. The statement carried on the official IRNA news agency was in response to a claim earlier by Iranian
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More than a thousand hours of flight time carried out this year by deployed Fire Scout unmanned helicopters is evidence that the system is working through its developmental problems and showing itself able to deliver a reliable reconnaissance and surveillance capability, the programme's U.S. Navy managers said.
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The French Ministry of Defence said that it was in talks with Dassault Aviation on an order for a new unmanned aircraft system (a variant of the IAI Heron TP ) that would enter into service in 2014. The Dassault aircraft would replace the Harfang, made by EADS derived from the
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The Pakistan Navy has inducted the first squadron of unmanned aircraft systems into its fleet. Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Noman Bashir was the chief guest in the induction ceremony for the new UQAB-11 squadron. During the ceremony he said that unmanned aircraft would increase the operational capabilities of
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BAE Mantis Uses Lola CompositesMotorsport aficionados of a certain age love to love Lola. For 50 years, the master of the British kit car has been a frontrunner, either in its own right or as the engineering power behind big teams in formulas ranging from Indianapolis and Can-Am to
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Northrop Grumman has announced that a test version of Germany’s Euro Hawk is now finally in the air, en route to the EADS Manching site, near Munich. The aircraft, which took off from Edwards Air Force Base, California, on Wednesday, July 20, at approximately 11:50 Central European Summer
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Insitu Inc. announced that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system surpassed 500,000 combat flight hours and more than 56,000 combat sorties to deliver actionable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) with 99 percent mission readiness. "We successfully accomplished this milestone through a collaborative global team," said Insitu President
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded the company a contract for development of the complete Demonstrator Laser Weapon System (DLWS) for the agency’s High Energy Liquid Laser Defense System (HELLADS) programme. The contract award follows the successful development
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Northrop Grumman has just posted this video of the successful first flight on June 29, 2010 from Palmdale, California, to Edwards Air Force Base of Euro Hawk – the first international RQ-4 Global Hawk configuration. The Euro Hawk, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation and EADS Defence & Security, successfully completed
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The prototype of South Africa's latest Unmanned Aircraft the Denel Dynamics Seeker 400, has been completed and is due to make its maiden flight in the first quarter of next year. The Seeker 400 is a medium altitude, long endurance (Male) UAV. A mock-up of the aircraft
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The Pentagon admitted that a defence contractor had suffered a major data breach in March in a speech announcing a cyber-strategy plan emphasizing defensive tactics. The intruders were after files related to missile tracking systems, unmanned aircraft sytems and the Joint Strike Fighter. A foreign government was behind a
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The US Air Force has posted this video interview with a MQ-9 Reaper Air Crew Chief on YouTube. In it he descibes what it takes to keep the aircraft in the air, 24/7.