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Denmark's Army is planning to buy tactical unmanned aircraft systems for avariety of different missions. A delegation of military officials visited Israel recently as part of a market assessment. They met the Israeli Air Force and some local manufacturers during the trip. In 2006 the Danish Defence Ministry
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Iran has rejected a US call for the return of an unmanned surveillance aircraft captured by Iran's military earlier this month. The unmanned aircraft was now "property" of Iran and it was up to Iran to decide what to do with it, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi
Applications & Testing & Experience
The US Air Force is buying a single General Atomics Predator C Avenger jet-powered unmanned combat aircraft. Lt. Gen. Thomas Owen, commander of the service's Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, approved the procurement. The value of the sole-source contract was censored. The partially stealthy
Applications & Testing & Experience
GKN Aerospace (Isle of Wight, UK) reported that it supplied many of the composite parts and structures for the second X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration aircraft. The US Navy and Northrop Grumman completed first flight of the second UCAS-D air vehicle. As part of a multi-year contract, GKN
Military UAS
A Google Maps satellite image of an isolated airstrip in Nevada shows a secret but operational unmanned aircraft test facility. The Yucca Lake Airfield, deep inside the heavily restricted Tonopah Test Range, is on land owned by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a division of the Department of Energy
Business News
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Poway, California, is being awarded a $319,236,484 firm-fixed-price contract for 40 MQ-9 Block 1 aircraft, and 40 aircraft containers. The location of the performance is Poway, Calif. Work is expected to be completed by September 2013. This was a sole-source acquisition; one proposal was
Accident Reporting
US officials considered a covert raid to either destroy or recover the wreckage of a stealth RQ-170 unmanned aircraft that crashed in the rugged terrain of Eastern Iran last week, but decided that a military operation of that nature might spark a declaration of war from that country’s leadership.
Military UAS
Britain and France plan to work together on developing unmanned military aircraft, the British Minister of Defence said on Wednesday. Referring to an agreement last year to increase military collaboration in a bid to cut costs, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond told a parliamentary committee there would be a joint announcement
Accident Reporting
A US official said that Washington had no indication that an unmanned aircraft that had crashed in Iran had actually been shot down. In Tehran, state television quoted a military source as saying that Iran's military had shot down a US reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran. "
Military UAS
A US unmanned surveillance aircraft that went missing last week in western Afghanistan appears to have crashed in Iran. According to state television in Iran, the nation’s defence forces brought the aircraft down, which the Iranian reports said was an RQ-170 stealth aircraft. US officials acknowledged Sunday that an
Military UAS
AVX Aircraft Co., announced that it teamed with BAE Systems to submit a proposal for the planned Medium Range Maritime Unmanned Aerial System. "We think we've got a good proposal from the standpoint of meeting the [Navy] requirements," AVX spokesman Mike Cox said. The two companies
Applications & Testing & Experience
This video shows Schiebel's CAMCOPTER S-100 during a series of flights and trials onboard the French Navy’s new Gowind class OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel), L'ADROIT at the beginning of November. During the four days of operation in the Bay of Biscay, the CAMCOPTER carried out