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Boeing to Collaborate with Elbit Systems on Hermes 450 and 900 UAS

Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing and Elbit Systems have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the marketing and sales of Elbit Systems' Hermes 450 and 900 unmanned airbo...

Northrop Grumman, U.S. Navy Establish Fire Scout Training Center in Florida

Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has established a new training facility for Fire Scout unmanned helicopter operators that offers improved flight simulators, hands-on aircraft ...

UAVForge Reveals Challenge Of Developing Perch And Stare UAV

Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)

DARPA's UAVForge, a crowdsourcing competition to design, build and manufacture an advanced small unmanned air vehicle (UAV), set out to determine if a loosely-c...

University of Texas at Austin researchers demonstrate first 'spoofing' of UAVs

Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)

A University of Texas at Austin research team successfully demonstrated for the first time that the GPS signals of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, c...

Pakistan civilian deaths from US drones 'lowest since 2008'

Jul 02, 2012 (AFP)

Fewer civilians have died in US drone strikes in Pakistan so far this year than at any other time in the last four years, a report said Monday. Three to 24 civi...

Drones: pros and cons

Jun 22, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

Recently, US human rights organization called "American Civil Liberties Union" filed in a suit against President Obama's administration. This organization deman...

Northrop Grumman Unveils U.S. Navy's First MQ-4C BAMS Unmanned Aircraft

Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has unveiled the first U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) in a ceremony at Northrop Gr...

UN urges answers on US drone attacks, targeted killings

Jun 19, 2012 (AFP)

A UN expert on Tuesday urged Washington to clarify its rules on hunting Taliban and other suspects amid a "dramatic increase" in the use of drone attacks. The U...

U.S. Navy, Northrop Grumman Complete X-47B Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Move Second Unmanned Aircraft to East Coast

Jun 18, 2012 (SPX)

The first major phase of flight testing the X-47 B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft came to a successful conclusion on May 15 when Northr...

Pilotless US space plane lands after 469 days in orbit

Jun 17, 2012 (AFP)

A pilotless space plane developed by the US Air Force has landed safely back on Earth after spending 469 days in orbit, officials said. The robotic X-37B, a sor...

US drone kills three militants in Pakistan: officials

Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)

A US drone attack killed at least three militants early Thursday in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region, known as a hotbed of Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants, ...

Chavez reveals Venezuela has built first drone

Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)

President Hugo Chavez has revealed that Venezuela has made its first drone in partnership with Iran, Russia and China, and said Caracas plans to start exporting...

Swedish Defence Materiel Administration Orders AeroVironment Puma AE and Wasp Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)

AeroVironment has received a firm fixed-price order for 12 hybrid small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (Forsva...

Sagem tests UAV, announces contract

Jun 14, 2012 (UPI)

Sagem of France reports new testing of its Patroller UAV and a new contract for infrared seekers used on missiles. The announcements were made at the Eurosatory...

Karzai casts doubt on NATO air strike rules

Jun 12, 2012 (AFP)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said NATO had agreed not to carry out air strikes on residential areas even in self-defence, apparently contradicting c...

Israel encrypts UAVs as cyberwar widens

Jun 12, 2012 (UPI)

Israel's military is expected shortly to take delivery of an advanced model of the Skylark 1 unmanned aerial vehicle that will be equipped with electronic jamme...

US drone crashes in Maryland: Navy

Jun 11, 2012 (AFP)

A US Navy drone crashed in swamp land in Maryland, not far from the US capital Washington, on Monday without causing any injuries or property damage, officials ...

UN backs probe into US drone civilian casualties

Jun 07, 2012 (AFP)

The UN human rights chief on Thursday called for a UN investigation into US drone strikes in Pakistan, questioning their legality and saying they kill innocent ...

Boeing Phantom Eye Completes First Autonomous Flight

Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing's Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system (UAS) completed its first autonomous flight June 1 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Ba...

Lockheed Martin Completes Delivery of Latest Order of Aerostat Detection Systems to US Army

Jun 04, 2012 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin has completed its most recent Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) order by delivering the 29th unit to the U.S. Army May 29. Since the pro...