The Latvian parliament has amended the country’s aviation laws so that soldiers at Army bases can now shoot down any suspicious drone flying overhead.
By Mike1979 Russia (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
Category: UAV
MQ-8C getting flat-panel AESA radar
Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s new Osprey X-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been selected by the U.S. Navy for mounting on its MQ-8C VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle.
Photo: Leonardo
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JAGM fired from UAV
Lockheed Martin’s multi-mode Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) has been fired from a UAV for the first time on May 25.
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Photo: Lockheed Martin
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USAF not deploying RQ-4 to Misawa, Japan for this summer
The U.S. Air Force will keep its RQ-4 unmanned aerial vehicle in Guam this summer instead of sending the aircraft o Misawa air base in Japan as per past practice.
By John Schwab [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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First Wing Loong UAV for Kazakhstan appears at KADEX-2016
The first CAIG Wing Loong unmanned aerial vehicle ordered by Kazakhstan has been put on display at the KADEX-2016 arms show. The serial number suggests the production batch number is WD106.
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