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Motorsport aficionados of a certain age love to love Lola. For 50 years, the master of the British kit car has been a frontrunner, either in its own right or as the engineering power behind big teams in formulas ranging from Indianapolis and Can-Am to Le Mans and Formula 1.
The Global Unmanned Aircraft Systems Market, worth an estimated US $7.1 billion this year, is expected to grow by 4% over the next ten years, reaching US $10.5 billion in 2021, according to a new report.
A project at the U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Center incorporates weather information with flight maps so crews can more quickly understand what the environment plans to throw their way and when.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) will host a Proposers’ Day Conference for the Great Horned Owl (GHO) Programme on August 15, 2011, in anticipation of the release of a new solicitation in support of the programme.
The Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) claims to have shot down an American unmanned aircraft over the nuclear enrichment site of Fordo near the city of Qom.
Northrop Grumman has announced that a test version of Germany’s Euro Hawk is now finally in the air, en route to the EADS Manching site, near Munich.
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Insitu Inc. announced that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system surpassed 500,000 combat flight hours and more than 56,000 combat sorties to deliver actionable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) with 99 percent mission readiness.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded the company a contract for development of the complete Demonstrator Laser Weapon System (DLWS) for the agency’s High Energy Liquid Laser Defense System (HELLADS) programme.