All Military UAVs articles – Page 184
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Northrop wins $1.1 billion BAMS deal
Northrop Grumman will supply 48-68 RQ-4N Global Hawks to the US Navy after winning a $1.16 billion contract to launch the development phase of the Broad...
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Predator, Reaper to add electronic warfare payload
Electronic warfare is the latest mission added to the US Air Force's hunter-killer-scout role for the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper unmanned...
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Malaysian navy to seek funding for ASW helicopters
Malaysia's navy has put a requirement for anti-submarine warfare helicopters at the top of its priorities list ...
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NewsUSN selects contractor for $1.1 billion BAMS contract
US Navy officials today announced awarding the $1.16 billion Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) contract to Northrop Grumman to develop a new variant of the RQ-4 Global Hawk.
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NewsDARPA selects three for infinite-endurance UAS
Aurora Flight Sciences, Boeing and Lockheed Martin will each develop designs for a new aircraft capable of flying unrefuelled for five years.
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First flight success for Watchkeeper UAV
Elbit Systems performed the first test flight of a prototype WK450 unmanned air vehicle for the British Army's Watchkeeper programme on 16 April ...
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Swift to fly small heavy fuel engine in Killer Bee
Swift Engineering is to fly a diesel engine-powered Killer Bee UAV by mid-to-late May ...
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US-designed flying, crawling UAV to be proposed to UK MoD
A morphing micro air and land vehicle (MMLV) that flies and crawls along the ground is to be proposed to the UK Ministry of Defence...
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Technology briefs
AUSTRALIA TO EXPAND CIVILIAN UAV USE UNMANNED VEHICLES Australia's Queensland state government has launched its second unmanned air vehicle challenge,...
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Aeronautics' Aerosky 2 to test hybrid engine on 2 June
Israel's Aeronautics Defence Systems' Aerosky 2 close-range tactical unmanned air vehicle is to make its first...
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NewsFirst Block 1 Sky Warrior flies; to carry new SAR package
General Atomics has performed the first flight of its Block 1 Sky Warrior UAV for the US Army ...
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NewsBritish Army's Elbit Hermes 450 UAVs reach 7,000 flight hours
The British Army's interim use of Elbit Systems Hermes 450 UAVs in Afghanistan and Iraq has reached 7,000 flight hours ...
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UK's prototype Watchkeeper UAV nears first flight
Israel's Elbit Systems will perform the first test flight of the UK Ministry of Defence's...
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Tata joins Urban in ducted fan aircraft development
India's Tata Advanced Systems and Israel's Urban Aeronautics are to co-operate in developing and manufacturing ducted fan air unmanned air vehicles. Tata...
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Israel sets April deadline for $100 million battalion UAV contract proposals
A deadline of mid-April has been set for industry proposals for the Israeli Defence Force's battalion level unmanned air vehicle requirement that would deliver...
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Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Block 20 achieves 33h endurance
Northrop Grumman's high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) RQ-4 Global Hawk set an...
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Raytheon gets contract for jamming version of air-launched decoy
Raytheon is to begin the next stage of development for the US Air Force's first stand-in jammer platform, scheduled to enter operational service after 2013....
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COTS UAV makes arctic debut
A Norwegian university has flown an autonomous unmanned air vehicle equipped with meteorological sensors over the Spitzbergen/Svalbard island in the arctic...
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Modified Diamond flies on fuel cells
A piloted, fuel cell-powered aircraft was flown by Boeing three times during February and March. The two-seat Diamond Aircraft Dimona motor-glider,...
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Tech notes
Electromagnetic force could keep satellites together FORMATION Using magnetic forces to hold the elements of a modular spacecraft together without...