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Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is being awarded $10,976,866 for firm-fixed-price delivery order 0007 against a previously issued Basic Ordering Agreement (N68335-11-G-0009) for the procurement of one ScanEagle System that consists of nine ScanEagle Electro-Optics and three ScanEagle Infra-red Unmanned Air Vehicles for the government of Yemen under the Foreign Military Sales program. Continue reading
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced the first operational flights in Afghanistan of Thales’s unmanned air system, Watchkeeper. This new capability is providing force protection for British troops as they prepare to draw down from Afghanistan by the end of this year. Continue reading
Vietnam has acquired the Orbiter 2 unmanned air system (UAS) for use as an aerial forward observation asset for its artillery corps. Continue reading
AeroVironment, Inc. announced it has received a firm fixed-price order valued at $21,779,408 for RQ-12 Wasp®AE small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and initial spares packages for the United States Marine Corps. Continue reading
The Portuguese ese army is nearing the end of a NATO deployment in Kosovo using its indigenously-built Tekever unmanned air vehicles (UAV).
A senior U.S. Navy official on Tuesday said improved reliability may allow the Navy to buy fewer than the 68 Northrop Grumman Corp high-altitude, unmanned Triton aircraft now planned. Continue reading
Textron Systems Weapon & Sensor Systems announced that a pair of successful live-fire demonstrations of its new Fury lightweight precision guided glide weapon off of a Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.
Two Taiwan nationals today admitted their roles in a scheme to export sensitive U.S. military drone technology overseas, federal prosecutors say. Hui Sheng Shen, 47, and Huan Ling Chang, 43, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act during a hearing today before U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas. Continue reading