UAS VISION
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Last month within the mountainous terrain of The Great Salt Lake Desert at Dugway Proving Ground Utah, the U.S. Army conducted flight testing of an unmanned airborne electronic attack capability known as NERO, or the Networked Electronic Warfare Remotely Operated. Continue reading
Thales has developed a ready-for-market precision-guided bomb based on its Lightweight Multi-role Missile (LMM) designed for use on small unmanned air systems.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) has announced its successful participation in NATO’s Unified Vision (UV14) Trial at Ørland Main Air Station in Brekstad, Norway, May 19-28.
Diplomatic tensions between Germany and the U.S. stoked by allegations of spying are spilling over into German government plans to upgrade the military’s UAS, said lawmakers who sit on parliament’s Defence Committee.
Britain and France plan to sign a memorandum of understanding for the study of a combat UAS bringing their Air Forces closer to an advanced fighter programme worth billions, defence ministry spokespersons of the two countries said. Continue reading
The Royal Australian Air Force’s Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft mission in Afghanistan has been extended to the end of 2014 following a request from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
Pacific Air Forces officials said the first deployment of the RQ-4 Global Hawk to Misawa AB, Japan, is going well, with weather patterns not affecting sortie generation in any meaningful way thus far. Continue reading
The United Kingdom has deployed its five new General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft systems to Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 3 July.