Military UAVs – Page 299
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Boeing seeks government help on Super Frog airlifter
Ramon Lopez/FORT WORTH Boeing's Phantom Works is seeking the involvement of a US Government research organisation to build a large-scale flying model of the company's Advanced Theater Transport (ATT) concept aircraft. The company reckons the aircraft could be operational by 2013-5. The Phantom Works already has research and ...
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Designed to last
The US Navy's future flat-tops will be built to stay in service until the end of the century Ramon Lopez/NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA Tomorrow's aircraft carriers are taking shape on the computer screens of US Navy and industry officials in charge of designing and building the final Nimitz-class carrier, the CVN ...
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USA aims to link NATO systems
Improved coalition operations are the focus of technology demonstrations planned by the US Department of Defense (DoD). Development of techniques to ensure the interoperability of different airborne ground-surveillance systems to be deployed by NATO nations is one of 11 advanced concept technology demonstrations (ACTDs) to be funded in fiscal ...
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China develops two unmanned vehicles
Aviation Industries China has developed two unmanned air vehicles (UAV) which appear to share a platform. Both feature a bullet-shaped fuselage with a low mounted swept wing. One design appears to be equipped for reconnaissance while the other has a pod above the fuselage, probably for electronic warfare or ...