US Navy testing of the RQ-4AGlobal Hawk unmanned air vehicle moved a step closer earlier this month, when the service's first of two demonstrators left Northrop Grumman's manufacturing site at Palmdale, California on a 4h first flight. The navy is to test the high-altitude long-endurance UAV during maritime surveillance missions from NAS Patuxent River from mid-2005.
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.
