Aviation News
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been funding Aurora’s SideArm UAV launch and recovery system for the Tactically Enhanced Reconnaissance Node (Tern) program. A video showing how the actual system works has been posted online.
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The U.S. Navy has successfully tested its Spike – not to be confused with the Rafael version – missile on an unmanned aerial vehicle.
![Spike%20Test%20Impact[1]](http://alert5.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Spike20Test20Impact1.jpg)
Photo: U.S. Navy
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Seapower reports that Boeing intends to fit a parachute kit to its SHARC (Sensor-Hosting Remote Autonomous Craft) unmanned surface vehicle.
Blighter Surveillance Systems disclosed that its AUDS counter-UAS defense system has been operational with U.S. military forces.
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The U.S. Army is asking the defense industry to submit their ideas for a missile that can dispense a swarm of quadcopters.
By Zimin.V.G. (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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