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Two armed US Predator drones crash in Iraq, Turkey
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
The US Air Force recently lost control of two armed Predator drones in separate incidents in Turkey and Iraq, a US military official said Wednesday. The Predato...
Patroller UAV tested in homeland security scenarios
Oct 20, 2015 (UPI)
The Patroller long-endurance drone by Sagem performed successfully in recent homeland security tests held in Portugal as part of a European Commission project. ...
US downplays civilian drone deaths, secret files show
Oct 16, 2015 (AFP)
President Barack Obama's administration has underrepresented the true number of civilians killed in drone strikes, a news site said in citing a cache of secret ...
Northrop Grumman building UAV research site in North Dakota
Oct 16, 2015 (UPI)
Ground has been broken on a 36,000-square foot facility for Northrop Grumman's efforts in unmanned aerial vehicle technologies. The facility is on 10 acres of l...
Report: Leaked documents reveal expensive drone program
Oct 15, 2015 (UPI)
Leaked classified government documents reveal the U.S. military's heavy reliance on predator drones may be a costly threat to civilians and cause other problems...
Battelle announces drone disruption system
Oct 14, 2015 (UPI)
A point-and-shoot device to disrupt drones in flight has been developed by Battelle. The DroneDefender has a range of about 1,000 yards and is based on radio co...
U.S. allies order Raven unmanned aerial vehicles
Oct 14, 2015 (UPI)
AeroVironment Inc., a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, is supplying its hand-launched RQ-11B Raven system to seven allied countries. The countries, whi...
Lockheed Martin demonstrates ICARUS at AUSA meeting
Oct 13, 2015 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin showed off its new solution for detecting drone threats at this year's Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting on Monday. The techn...
Iraq defense ministry unveils new Chinese unmanned vehicle
Oct 13, 2015 (UPI)
Iraq's Ministry of Defense unveiled its new China Aerospace and Technology Corporation CH-4B "Rainbow" unmanned aerial vehicle on Saturday. Defense official Kha...
Vanishing Acts: A Call for Disappearing Delivery Vehicles
Oct 12, 2015 (SPX)
It sounds like an engineering fantasy, or maybe an episode from Mission Impossible: A flock of small, single-use, unpowered delivery vehicles dropped from an ai...
U.S. Air Force expands drone training at Holloman
Oct 08, 2015 (UPI)
The U.S. Air Force is expanding its training program for remotely piloted aircraft at the Holloman Air Force Base, including the MQ-1 Predator and the MQ-9 Reap...
U.S. State Dept. approves sale of MQ-9 Reapers to Spain
Oct 07, 2015 (UPI)
The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles to Spain's military, the department announced on Wednesday. The sale cov...
Britain to increase UAV fleet, modernize Special Forces gear
Oct 05, 2015 (UPI)
Britain is to replace and double its fleet of remotely piloted aircraft and modernize equipment of its Special Forces. The investment, announced by Prime Minist...
Russian firm creating new UAV sensor technologies
Oct 05, 2015 (UPI)
A Russian company is creating new payloads for unmanned aerial vehicles to improve surveillance using the spectral radiation emitted by objects. Rostec, the Rus...
Britain will double drone fleet: Cameron
Oct 03, 2015 (AFP)
Prime Minister David Cameron said Sunday he will double Britain's drone fleet and warned about the prospect of Britain's exit from the European Union. Cameron s...
Drone market to hit $10 billion by 2024: experts
Oct 02, 2015 (AFP)
The market for military drones is expected to almost double by 2024 to beyond $10 billion (8.9 billion euros), according to a report published Friday by special...
Israeli-made Dominator UAV tested in Mexico
Oct 01, 2015 (UPI)
Israeli defense contractor Aeronautics Ltd. is flight testing its Dominator XP unmanned aerial vehicle in Mexico, which has purchased the system. The Dominator ...
Patching up X-37B
Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)
The fourth flight of the mysterious X-37B robot spaceplane is still hard to decipher. For the first time, the US Air Force did not release any photographs of th...
Puma unmanned craft tested on USS Gonzalez
Sep 23, 2015 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy tested the RQ-20A Puma (Block II) unmanned aircraft at sea on board the guided-missile destroyer USS Gonzalez, the Navy announced on Wednesday. Th...
China Unveils Next-Generation Wing Loong II Drone
Sep 22, 2015 (Sputnik)
Chinese defense contractor Chengdu Aircraft Corporation unveiled its second-generation Wing Loong II unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) at the biennial Beiji...
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