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Kratos has recently successfully achieved the final development program milestone for its BQM-177A Subsonic Aerial Target (SSAT) and the future sub-sonic target drone for the U.S. Navy will enter Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) once the Federal Fiscal 2017 Budget is approved.
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Photo: NAVAIR
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A video posted by Northrop Grumman on the Tern UAS it is developing for DARPA sheds new light on the unmanned aircraft’s capabilities.
The United States has been flying its drones along the Tunisian-Libyan border to ward of attacks by Islamic State, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi disclosed on television on Nov. 24.
By United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Yonhap disclosed that South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has developed a directional, high-powered electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generator to shoot down drones from North Korea.
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Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) is working on a tethered unmanned aerial vehicle that will be attached to the Armata heavy military tracked vehicle platform.
By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/650) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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