The US Air Force has revealed an estimated $60 million unit cost for an operational platform to follow the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) demonstrator programme. Boeing will deliver its first of three X-45C J-UCAS demonstrators in July 2006 for operational assessment from 2007-11, with Northrop Grumman to manufacture two X-47B air vehicles.
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.
