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The Navy programme office in charge of the service's newest unmanned aerial system is looking to integrate Air Force-centric hardware into that aircraft, as a way to close a critical collection gap in ongoing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Members of the Navy's Persistent Maritime
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A Shadow unmanned aircraft had an equipment emergency last Wednesday morning, causing its recovery parachute to successfully deploy and eventually bring the aircraft down on private property west of Fort Huachuca, according to the installation’s spokeswoman. There was no environmental damage, no fire and no injuries to anyone on
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced at a Pentagon news conference yesterday that the US would deploy armed Predator UAS to attack Libya government forces . Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Cartwright said that the first Predator mission in Libya had been scheduled for Thursday night
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AeroVironment has announced that it received a firm-fixed-price contract delivery order valued at $11,500,000 for new digital Puma All Environment (AE) unmanned aircraft systems , initial spares packages and training services on April 11, 2011. The items were procured under the existing United States Special Operations Command
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Insitu Inc. announced that the Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) Integrator completed its first Operational Assessment (OA-1), a critical milestone in the STUAS program execution. During OA-1, the STUAS Integrator system flew mission scenarios designed to assess operational suitability of the current Integrator UAS. The STUAS programme
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Officials at U.S. Army Special Operations Command are developing tactics and plans for operating two companies worth of Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft, planned to come online beginning in 2013. “We’ve already recognized that we will need more personnel to conduct a Special Operations Force-specific task,” said Lt.
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AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems just announced that its Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TUAS) have achieved in excess of 600,000 total flight hours. Approximately 90 percent of these hours were amassed in support of combat operations at locations throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, fuelling an average of more than 100,
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ADA Technologies, Inc. has received a $750,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force for research on an innovative nano-material-enabled power system for use in small to micro Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Specifically, ADA will create a high performance, cost effective and easy-to-manufacture lithium-ion battery
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US Naval Special Warfare Command this month will commission a new active-duty group that will concentrate the component’s UAS, underwater systems and robotic programmes and personnel under a single entity. The establishment of Naval Special Warfare Group 10 reflects the increasing importance of UAS in the elite forces.
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Israel Aerospace Industries has offered to sell Azerbaijan its Heron 1 and Searcher 2 unmanned aircraft systems as part of "comprehensive solutions" to answer the nation's defence needs. Made during a recent visit to Azerbaijan by an IAI delegation, the offer was prompted by the potential
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The US Department of Defence has released details on major defence acquisition programme cost, schedule, and performance changes since the September 2010 reporting period. Global Hawk is 23% and the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals programmes is 16%, over budget. This information is based on the Selected
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Two US soldiers were killed by a Hellfire missile fired from a U.S. Air Force Predator last week, in what appears to be the first "friendly fire" incident involving an unmanned aircraft. They were part of a Marine unit moving in to reinforce fellow Marines under heavy