All Military UAVs articles – Page 327
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NASA F-16XL laminar-flow tests will aid HSCT effort
NASA EXPECTS TO begin, a year-long laminar-flow flight-test programme, on a Lockheed F-16XL by October, in support of US industry efforts to build a next-generation high-speed commercial transport (HSCT). The work follows delivery of a new laminar-flow panel to the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards ...
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Waiting for the lift-off
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Heli-Expo '95, the Helicopter Association International (HAI) convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 29-31 January, comes as the industry faces the issues of continued recession, inadequate infrastructure and concerns over the safety of the machine on which most helicopter pilots train today. Manufacturers have ...
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Fighting options
If you need a new piece of military equipment, there are four major ways to acquire it: to buy something which satisfies most of your requirements off somebody else's shelf; to buy something off somebody else's shelf and modify it for your own purposes; to develop it entirely yourself; or ...
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UK may cancel Phoenix UAV
Douglas Barrie and Simon Elliott/LONDON THE BRITISH ARMY is considering the cancellation of a key unmanned-air-vehicle (UAV) programme which is six years behind schedule and has cost the Ministry of Defence (MoD) £227 million. Project costs have more than doubled, compared with the original estimates when the deal ...
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Blade runners
It may be a depressed market, but potential customers have plenty of choice. Douglas Barrie Kieran Daly Jennifer Pite/LONDON In the civil market, helicopter sales show scarcely any sign of recovery - with some sectors declining still further. Nonetheless, there ...
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Mielec chooses power plants for Vector UAV
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW WSK PZL-MIELEC has selected, German piston-engine manufacturer Gebler-Hirthmotoren and French gas turbine Company Microturbo, to supply the power plants for its Vector unmanned air vehicle (UAV). According to the Polish manufacturer's UAV department manager Andrzej Podsadowski, the company proposes to power the piston-prop variant ...