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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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Turkey’s indigenous Bayraktar TB2 UAV successfully dropped a Roketsan MAM-L laser-guided glide bomb on Apr. 29.
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Textron is working on an upgrade of its Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle that will allow the RQ-7 to gain some capabilities that are currently limited to larger UAVs such as the MQ-1.
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The Adcom United 40 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is undergoing flight testing in Russia’s Akhtubinsk flight test center, Jane’s reported.
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By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/522) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Protector unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that the British Ministry of Defense is buying has been revealed to be the Certifiable Predator B (CPB) from GA-ASI.
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Image: GA-ASI
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