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NASA's Global Hawk over Edwards Air Force Base - Photo: NASA / Carla Thomas
NASA scientists have successfully completed flight tests in preparation for deployment of a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tropical tropopause layer of the atmosphere. Continue reading
Britain and France plan to work together on developing unmanned military aircraft, the British Minister of Defence said on Wednesday. Continue reading
SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company, has won contracts in excess of €23 million to provide logistics support for a range of systems. Continue reading
An Iranian TV station appears to have faked dozens of accounts of US drone strikes in Somalia which it says have killed hundreds of civilians. Continue reading
Boosted by an increase in sales, AeroVironment Inc. exceeded analyst estimates and reported $6.6 million in second-quarter profit, a large increase over the same period a year ago. Continue reading
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has kicked off an initiative to develop advanced applications capable of coordinating various intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) programmes. Continue reading
NASA researchers have demonstrated the use of an unmanned aircraft to collect very low altitude airborne measurements of greenhouse gases at several sites in California and Nevada.
The unmanned surveillance aircraft lost by the United States in Iran was indeed a stealth aircraft being used for secret missions by the CIA, US officials admitted on Monday. Continue reading