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Northrop Grumman has established a Global Hawk Support Website where pertinent information about the Global Hawk (and related platforms) is provided. NGC uses the new website to put their case against the USAF decision to terminate Block 30 Global Hawk: * Global Hawks fly 3-4 times longer missions and farther than
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This video, uploaded on March 24, 2012, shows the made-in-Iran UAS, known as “Pahpad”, taking off and operating from Hamah airbase in the city of Hama, in the West of Syria, north of Damascus. Hamah seems to be one of the most active regime’s airbases: a Syrian Air Il-76
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India’s state-run Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) has announced that the debut flight test of indigenously developed UAS Rustom-2 would take place in February 2014. The Rustom is being developed exclusively for defence purpose and will have advanced capabilities and additional payloads. ADE is a premier DRDO lab which is
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Israel Aerospace Industries has doubled the endurance of its BirdEye-650 unmanned aircraft system to 6 hours through the use of a fuel cell power pack. The advance was demonstrated during recent test flights, and the company predicts that longer missions will be possible using the new technology. Tommy Silberring, General
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Australia's Cocos Islands territory could be used as a staging point for flights by United States unmanned surveillance aircraft over the South China Sea. Citing US and Australian sources, The Washington Post said that the Pentagon was eyeing the Indian Ocean territory's coral atolls as an
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Posted April 1. "Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To Your Location - Our unmanned delivery agents are fast and work tirelessly." Here’s how it works: You order through an app on your smartphone, and after the taco has been prepared at TacoCopter’s headquarters, instead of being delivered
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The Indian government said on Tuesday that it has begun using unmanned aircraft in Naxal-affected areas of the country. "Yes, madam," Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh told the Lok Sabha in a written reply. The minister, however, said, "It is too early to make an
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Sanford N. McDonnell, who succeeded his uncle as chairman of the aerospace company McDonnell Douglas and, through the 1980s, modernized its management systems, remade the corporate culture and sharply increased earnings, died on Monday at his home in Clayton, Mo. He was 89. The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer,
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The US Air Force intends to place six of the Global Hawk Block 30 remotely piloted aircraft that it doesn’t want to operate beyond Fiscal 2012 into non-recoverable storage and another 12 into recoverable storage, said Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz on Tuesday. It's possible those
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Aurora's Skate small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) was awarded first place in the 2012 Border Security Technology/Product Challenge at the recently held 2012 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona. The top prize is awarded to a technology or product that best demonstrates innovation in the border security
Commercial
In what could well have been an April 1 message, the world's largest BitTorrent site announced that intends to redefine "cloud computing" with a plan to move at least some of its servers onto unmanned aircraft miles above Sweden. In a recent blog post, The Pirate
Events
Electronic Countermeasures @ GLOW Festival NL 2011 from liam young on Vimeo. The Electronic Countermeasures project is essentially an autonomous, roaming Internet swarm, constructed from repurposed UAS. The project is lead by Liam Young of think tank Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today and Unknown Fields Division, with assistance from Eleanor Saitta, Oliviu