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Sanford N. McDonnell, who succeeded his uncle as chairman of the aerospace company McDonnell Douglas and, through the 1980s, modernized its management systems, remade the corporate culture and sharply increased earnings, died on Monday at his home in Clayton, Mo. He was 89. Continue reading
Defense Tech just published some new photos of that C-130H that collided with an RQ-7 Shadow over Afghanistan last year. Continue reading
The US Air Force intends to place six of the Global Hawk Block 30 remotely piloted aircraft that it doesn’t want to operate beyond Fiscal 2012 into non-recoverable storage and another 12 into recoverable storage, said Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz on Tuesday. Continue reading
UAS 20
Simlat has been selected by UAS Technologies as its primary training systems provider for the UAS20 advanced unmanned platform. Continue reading
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals for technology supportive of Arctic situation awareness. Continue reading
The Spanish Government approved last Friday, March 16th a plan to restructure the public sector, which affected 49 companies, including INSA (Ingeniería y Servicios Aerospaciales S.A.). Continue reading
Aurora’s Skate small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) was awarded first place in the 2012 Border Security Technology/Product Challenge at the recently held 2012 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona.
Iran's Karrar
Iran claims to have produced a new indigenous unmanned aircraft, which it apparently, “possesses high capabilities and versatile features to meet its objectives.” Continue reading