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Local TV Station, KASA Fox, broadcast this report of the live flying demonstrations at the annual national UAV convention organized by the Technical Analysis and Applications Center (TAAC) from New Mexico State University. Hundreds of industry experts watched the aerial robots sail over the Rio Grande valley from the Tamaya
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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
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An Iranian TV station appears to have faked dozens of accounts of US drone strikes in Somalia which it says have killed hundreds of civilians. Press TV, which was fined £100,000 by Ofcom (the UK Press Regulatory Authority) after the station hid the fact that a 2009 "interviewee&
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
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High-end real estate agent Stephen Shapiro, is now using video taken from a small hexrotor unmanned helicopter to sell expensive homes in Southern California. In this tough economic market selling a home formerly owned by a star can even be a tough sell. To the person with $25 million to
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While most American UAS are the under 5 kg (11 pound) micro-UAS models like Raven and Desert Hawk, there has been increasing appreciation for heavier mini-UAS. These have greater endurance, better sensors and are more resistant to high winds. One of the more popular mini-UAS is the US Navy Silver
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Insitu Inc. is being awarded an $11,994,145 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0061) to exercise an option for operational and maintenance services in support of the ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems. These services will provide electro-optical/infrared and mid-wave infrared imagery in support of Marine Corps operations
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The US Military has gone from having just a few unmanned aircraft at the outset of the Iraq War to now over 7,000. American drone technology is a sought-after brand on the international arms market, but other countries have and increasingly are developing their own platforms. Allies like Israel
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France and Britain hope to deepen defence co-operation, including in unmanned air surveillance, strengthen their influence inside NATO and avoid a confrontation over the future shape of Europe at a crucial Anglo-French summit this Friday. The two countries may discuss plans for stronger voting rights in NATO for the larger
Military UAS
The French Senate Foreign Affairs, Armed Forces and Defence Committee has decided to cancel a large part of the financial provision for the next MALE UAS programme and allocate the saving towards the development of the Franco-British joint venture MALE programme for 2020. The decision was non-partisan, with 33 votes
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BAE Systems has received a $132 million US Navy task order to provide C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) technical services for military operations around the world. The company will conduct maintenance, upgrades, logistics, training and sustainment support for various equipment, sensors and systems. These services will
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Government officials in the Indian State of Orissa are looking at high-tech radio monitoring devices like Unmanned Aircraft for catering to any short notice multi-linear operation in the fields of disaster management, heath services and homeland security. A meeting to this effect has been held recently under Chairmanship of Chief