Northrop Grumman has received $16 million from the US Army to produce additional Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar (TESAR) payloads for the General Atomics Predator unmanned air vehicle. The contract provides for nine TESAR payloads, two spares and a set of ground control-station displays. Delivery will be between May 1998 and the first quarter of 1999.
Source: Flight International
The UK has confirmed the early retirement of 17 Puma HC2 helicopters, 14 of its older Boeing CH-47 Chinooks and the Watchkeeper uncrewed air vehicle (UAV) in a bid to slash costs. Disclosing the move in a statement to the House of Commons on 20 November, defence secretary John Healey ...
A Baykar TB3 unmanned air vehicle has successfully taken off from and landed on Turkey’s sole aircraft carrier.
The Jetank heavy uncrewed aerial vehicle, produced by Chinese state aerospace corporation AVIC, can carry a full load of conventional armaments or be used to deploy so-called swarms of smaller drones.
