NGC Built + P&W Powered Unmanned Craft Takesoff + Lands… From A Carrier!
Pratt & Whitney, with Northrop Grumman, unveiled the first X-47B air vehicle for the U.S. Navy's Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D) program.
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Soldier Pilots Don’t Spill a Drop of the Flying Beer Keg
No fraternity beer keg party could include what the troops from the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the Pennsylvania National Guard revealed, with a small gasoline-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) nicknamed the “Flying Beer Keg,” (also known as) the XM156 Class I UAV.
Read MoreAAI’s Aerosonde Mark 5 UAS Proves Self At Yuma Proving Grounds
AAI Corporation, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, has conducted a successful first flight of its new Aerosonde Mark 5 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) at Yuma Proving Grounds in Yuma, Arizona.
Read MorePAC’s PAF UAV Handover
Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) has handed over around a dozen Predator-type UAVs to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), according to the Chairman of PAC, Air Marshal Khalid Chaudhary.
Read MoreUAV Team From Northrop Grumman Receive Navy Award
Northrop Grumman Corporation's RQ-4 Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration (GHMD) team was recently named Test Team of the Quarter for the second quarter of 2008 by the U.S. Navy's Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 20.
Read MoreTelespazio, Thales, Turkey — Trio Tied Together
Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, has won a tender as prime contractor, supported by Thales Alenia Space (a Thales/Finmeccanica company), from the Turkish Ministry of Defence for the Gokturk satellite system.
Read MoreUnmanned Combat Aircraft Unveiled By Northrop Grumman For U.S. Navy
Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) has just unveiled the first of the U.S. Navy's new unmanned combat aircraft at a ceremony in Palmdale, California, attended by Navy officials, state, and local government representatives, suppliers, and Northrop Grumman employees.
Read MoreA Predator Wish + Heron Height Hassle For Turkey
As speculation mounted that Turkey might opt for an Israeli armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to meet its needs, the Turkish Land Forces Command made its official request to the country's procurement agency to launch a bid for a US General Atomics Aeronautical Systems made Predator UAV.
Read MoreRaven UAVs To Do More In Italy
AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) (NASDAQ: AVAV) has announced the General Directorate for Aircraft Weapon Systems (MoD - Italy) has issued a Military Aircraft Type-Classification Certificate for the Raven B unmanned aircraft system, the first such certificate issued in Italy in the Micro-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle category.
Read MoreIDF Makes Their UAV Selection
The Israel Defense Forces has selected an enhanced version of Elbit System's Skylark mini-UAV for operation at the battalion level.
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