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Canada's Associate Defence Minister Julian Fantino last week dismissed as “speculation” reports the government is planning to purchase armed unmanned aircraft as the F-35 programme continues to encounter delays and cost overruns. But with U.S. and industry officials admitting this week the stealth fighters will cost more
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Iran's KarrarMilitary sources say that Iran has begun to harass the ground-based air defences of the U.S. Army and allies in the Persian Gulf region using swarms of unmanned aircraft. The aircraft, which appear to be of Chinese design or origin, are typically launched to exploit the
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Australian surf life-savers may soon add a small unmanned aircraft to their rescue equipment if a pilot project off the Queensland coast can demonstrate the new technology is efficient and effective. Surf Life Saving Australia has signed an agreement with Brisbane firm, V-TOL Aerospace, to collaboratively test this new technology.
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Medium Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aircraft System - Potential Tasks* Britain and France agreed on military cooperation last Friday to include a joint combat UAS programme, aircraft carrier, and combined monitoring of nuclear weapons arsenals -- all of which could cut defence costs on both sides of the Channel. Prime
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"A good number" of unmanned US military and intelligence unmanned aircraft are operating in the skies over Syria, monitoring the Syrian military's attacks against opposition forces and innocent civilians alike, US defence officials told NBC News' Jim Miklaszewski. The officials said this surveillance is not
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David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy are expected to announce plans to develop a next-generation of unmanned stealth aircraft at a bilateral summit in Paris today. Headed by France's Dassault Aviation and British defence contractor BAE Systems, the project follows a cooperation accord signed by the two countries in
VTOL
Yotaisc Technology is a Chinese company that's hoping to target South East Asia with its unmanned helicopter and has a stand at the Singapore Air Show for the first time. The company has so far only sold its X200 within China, but says it is the biggest private
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Insitu Inc. has announced that it has delivered and flown one of two Integrator Unmanned Aircraft Systems that will provide the U.S. Marine Corps an early operational capability for the Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) programme. "The Integrator system delivery at Twentynine Palms, just less than a
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Officials of the US Department of Defense (DoD) plan to spend at least $5.78 billion to buy and develop unmanned vehicles and unmanned vehicle payloads next year, according to data in the Pentagon's budget documents released this week. This figure is down 13.14 percent from the
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Holloman Air Force Base is the primary training base for some of the newest aircraft in the military. The MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper at Holloman represent advances in technology and one of the newest career fields in the US Air Force. "My unmanned aircraft can go places to
Commercial
Aerial video captivated an audience of farmers last week in Grand Island, watching a cheap camera attached to a small aircraft gets a bird's eye view. "You can see a lot from the air you can't see from the ground," Dr. Richard Ferguson said.
VTOL
Pulse Aerospace released is latest product, the PA-01 Vapor helicopter unmanned aircraft system at the PIPELINE Innovator of the Year Event in Overland Park, Kansas on January 26, 2012. Bill Donovan, President of Pulse Aerospace, was selected into the 2011 group of high-growth oriented innovators to take part in the