Aviation News
Last week, we revealed that China has deployed unmanned aerial vehicles to South China Sea. Fox News now has a satellite photo confirming the deployment on Woody Island in the Paracel archipelago.
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Source: Fox News
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Last weekend on May 21 and 22, hundreds of thousands of people descended upon Paya Lebar Air Base for the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Open House. While members of the public escaped from the scorching heat by lingering in the two massive exhibit halls, everyone probably failed to notice the insignia of 4 new squadrons that are making their appearance at an open house for the first time namely: 129, 138, 801 and 811 Squadrons.
Continue reading “Hidden-in-plain-sight: RSAF’s new UAV squadrons”
AeroVironment revealed at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition on May 16 that the U.S. Navy plans to deploy its Blackwing tube-launched unmanned aircraft system from its manned submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles. (Update to correct SSBN to SSGN)
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Graphic: AeroVironment
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A source said the Guizhou Aircraft Industry Corporation (GAIC) Harrier Hawk II/Air Sniper unmanned aerial vehicle has been monitoring foreign warships in the South China Sea for the past few days. This could mean that the drone has been deployed to the region.
Source unknown
The Pentagon’s inspector general has highlighted potential problems with U.S. Special Operations Command’s purchase of Puma AE UAVs from AeroVironment.
By Sgt. Bobby Yarbrough [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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