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An additional budget of more than 8 million Euros was allocated for the priority project of the Albanian Ministry of Defense for the purchase of UAVs, “within the scope of the agreement with Turkey and measures to increase territorial control and national security”. Continue reading
Iranian Mohajer-6 UAV during the PMF parade at Camp Ashraf
Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) displayed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during the parade they held on 26 June to mark their seventh anniversary, but did not show them in media coverage in a possible attempt to downplay links to Iran and recent attacks on US bases. Continue reading
The Skyborg team conducted a two hours and thirty minutes flight test on June 24 of the Skyborg autonomy core system (ACS) aboard a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger tactical unmanned vehicle during the Orange Flag 21-2 Large Force Test Event at Edwards AFB, California. Continue reading
France has signed for an additional General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) MQ-9 Reaper Block 5 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), with the US Department of Defense announcing a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) award on 28 June. Continue reading
Documents declassified about the CIA’s Project Aquiline, which sought to develop a small, stealthy drone that resembled a bird in flight, ended up being stored at Area 51 after the project was cancelled. Like so many other aerospace projects that were kept from the public eye, the Aquiline drones could very well still be kept at the secretive Nevada base collecting dust in a storage facility or even buried in the dirt. Continue reading
The UK National Audit Office (NAO)* issues regular ‘Value For Money’ Reports at the request of Parliament, and has just issued the latest ‘Improving the Performance of Major Equipment Contracts’ on June 24,2021. It finds that the RAF’s Protector UAV (MQ-9B SkyGuardian) programme has seen the largest cost increase of any major UK defence acquisition across air, land and sea and suffered a delay of over two years. Continue reading
An RQ-21A Blackjack attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163
Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is awarded a $12,514,386 modification (P00017) to previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract N00019-19-D-0033. Continue reading