Aviation News
BAE Systems told Jane’s that the company is in talks with British government officials to launch a fourth flight trials for the Taranis unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator.
By Mike Young (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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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
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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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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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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