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US drone strike kills 4 militants in Pakistan: officials
Mar 30, 2012 (AFP)
A US drone launched a missile attack on a militant compound in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border early Friday, killing four insurgent...
US could fly spy drones from Australian territory
Mar 28, 2012 (AFP)
Australia said Wednesday it may allow the United States to use its territory to operate long-range spy drones, as part of an increased US presence in the Asia-P...
NASA Flight Tests New ADS-B Device on Ikhana UAS
Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center flew its Ikhana MQ-9 unmanned aircraft with an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B, device, for the first ...
NRL Tests Robotic Fueling of Unmanned Surface Vessels
Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)
Engineers from the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department (SED) successfully demonstrate the robotic fluids transfer from a stationary platform to an Unmanned Su...
Russia to build mini drone
Mar 19, 2012 (IANS)
Russian warplane maker Irkut has signed a contract with Vietnam to build a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a media report said Thursday. The $10 million de...
Drones may be controlled by gestures
Mar 15, 2012 (UPI)
Drone aircraft taxiing on a runway may someday be controlled by ground personnel using just standard gestures, U.S. researchers say. Drones can already land aut...
US drone strike kills 5 militants in Pakistan: officials
Mar 13, 2012 (AFP)
A US drone strike killed five militants on Tuesday, targeting a vehicle travelling through Pakistan's Taliban and Al-Qaeda infested tribal belt on the Afghan bo...
UUAV conducts 7-hour mission
Mar 13, 2012 (UPI)
Germany's Atlas Elektronik reports that its SeaCat autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle has successfully completed a seven-hour mission. The vehicle traveled ...
FAA Starts UAS Test Site Selection Process
Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)
On 7 March, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a request for public comment on the selection process for six unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) tes...
Taiwan drone missing
Mar 07, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan's military said one of its drones was missing and believed to have crashed on Wednesday, the first such incident since the sophisticated pilotless aircra...
CU Team's Efficient Unmanned Aircraft Jetting Toward Commercialization
Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)
Propulsion by a novel jet engine is the crux of the innovation behind a University of Colorado Boulder-developed aircraft that's accelerating toward commerciali...
Northrop Grumman BAMS Unmanned Aircraft System Program Achieves Two Major Milestones
Feb 28, 2012 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman has commenced flight tests of the first developmental multifunction active sensor (MFAS) radar destined for the U.S. Navy's MQ-4C Broad Area Ma...
Drone makers cashing in as war tactics evolve
Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)
They are deadly, hard to detect and fast becoming one of the most sought-after weapons in the air defence industry. Global demand for unmanned aerial vehicles (...
Innocon has received an order for its MiniFalcon II Tactical UAV
Feb 24, 2012 (SPX)
Innocon, designing and manufacturing a wide range of innovative and unique UAVs, announced it has received an order for its Tactical UAV system, MiniFalcon II, ...
Pakistan tribesmen protest US drone strikes
Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)
Hundreds of armed tribesmen on Thursday rallied against US drone attacks in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, demanding compensation for damage and losses, witnes...
Anglo-French UAV cooperation progresses
Feb 22, 2012 (UPI)
The governments of Britain and France are moving forward with plans to acquire a range of unmanned aerial vehicles. Of special short-term interest are medium-al...
Raytheon demos fire-control system
Feb 20, 2012 (UPI)
A surveillance and fire-control radar system attached to tethered aerostats has been successfully tested in the United States. Raytheon said a series of demonst...
Unmanned version of A-10 on way
Feb 20, 2012 (UPI)
Aurora Flight Sciences has been selected to work on a U.S. military project for an unmanned version of the A-10 close support aircraft. Its selection as a team ...
US drones monitor events in Syria: report
Feb 18, 2012 (AFP)
A "good number" of unmanned US military and intelligence drones are operating in the skies over Syria, monitoring the Syrian military's attacks against oppositi...
France, Britain to launch joint drone project: report
Feb 16, 2012 (AFP)
France and Britain are to launch a joint project to build air combat drones during a visit by Prime Minister David Cameron to Paris, newspaper Les Echos reporte...
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