UK chief of the defence staff, Adm Sir Michael Boyce, last week told the parliamentary Defence Select Committee that the UK will consider arming its unmanned air vehicles. "I see it as an attractive thing to explore," he said. The Ministry of Defence is expected this month to select two of the four teams bidding for the Watchkeeper programme to continue into the next study phase.
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.
