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The Managing Director of the company that built the aircraft, Ehsan Rahmanian, said: “The aircraft enjoys a high potentiality and can carry out various military and non-military missions including patrolling, reconnaissance and monitoring woods and pastures.” “It is named “Shir Dal”. It is taken from a mythological creature in Persepolis
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The video above showing a civilian operated unmanned helicopter filming riots in Warsaw, Poland recently is a great example of the democratisation of what was until very recently, military-grade technology. This is a simply an ISR unmanned aircraft flying above the streets of a major city taking camera footage that
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The editors of Popular Science magazine have selected the US Navy/Northrop Grumman Corporation developed X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System to receive a 2011 Best of What's New (BOWN) Award in the Aviation & Space category. The Award was formally announced in the magazine's December issue
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Pieces of an unmanned aircraft that were found in a fisherman’s net on the southern coast of Turkey have sparked a controversy as they might belong to a Heron, a trademark piece of equipment from the Israeli military. The event started speculation that Israel might be conducting surveillance missions
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UAE firm Adcom Systems is displaying a full-sized mock-up of a medium altitude long endurance UAS, called the United 40, in the static park at the Dubai Air Show.An illustration at the Adcom stand, however, labels what appears to be an identical aircraft the Yabhon-Smart Eye 2. The single-engine,
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Respected UK daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, just published the Global Language Monitor Top 10 lists of the most commonly used words, phrases and names in English speaking media internet in the past year. It concludes that ‘drones’ has entered the list of the Top 10 most commonly used words
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The process of establishing the world’s first operational lunar base and propellant depot business in space is underway as the Shackelton Energy Company launches its initial fund raising campaign. This comes in the footsteps of recent amazing new discoveries of huge deposits of propellant-feedstock ice on the moon by
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The Financial Times Deutschland reported on Wednesday that EADS is set to offer to waive any rights to damages from cuts to Eurofighter jet orders if some countries buy Talarion UAS and sign maintenance deals. The newspaper cited two people familiar with the matter as saying that Stefan Zoller, head
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The US Air Force has issued a statement insisting that the malware that affected Ground Control Stations of US Predator and Reaper UAS, was “more of a nuisance than an operational threat.” The ability of pilots to remotely fly the aircraft from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada “remained secure
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Makani Power is developing Airborne Wind Turbines (AWT) to extract energy from the powerful, consistent winds at high altitudes. Makani’s AWT is a rigid wing that flies at altitudes between 300 and 600 meters. Turbines on the leading edge of the wing face into the wind as it flies
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Commander of Khatom ol-Anbia Air Defence Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli said now Iran can trace and shoot down small UAS over its airspace. The Brigadier also said that air defence units are closely monitoring overflights of foreign aircraft and are fully prepared to detect and shoot down unauthorized UAS.
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The 174th Fighter Wing, which has been operating unmanned aircraft over Afghanistan for nearly two years is about to start flying them out of Fort Drum and over Northern New York. FAA approval is coming any day now to allow the 174th Fighter Wing to begin flying MQ9 Reapers out