A Foreign Military Sales of four Phoenix 30 quadcopters for the Romanian Army is successful with the recent delivery of the aircraft.
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Category: UAV
Korean Air gets $333 million contract to produce UAVs for ROK military
Korean Air has been awarded a $333 million contract to manufacture its unmanned aerial vehicle for the South Korean military. The model selected for production is likely to be the KUS-FT tactical unmanned aerial system (UAS) that was unveiled at ADEX 2015.
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MQ-1 crashed in Iraq while on a combat mission
A U.S. Air Force MQ-1 crashed while it was on a combat mission over Iraq on Jan. 8. An air strike was called in to destroy the wreckage to prevent the drone from falling into ISIL’s hands.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Lt Col Leslie Pratt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
NRL, Penn State Univ. demonstrates cooperative soaring concept for UAVs
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Air Vehicle Intelligence and Autonomy (AVIA) Lab at Penn State University (PSU), have successfully demonstrated the use of cooperative autonomous soaring algorithms to keep unmanned sailplanes aloft for sustained flight durations.
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Photo: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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MQ-9 flights from Ethiopia have ceased
Since 2011, U.S. MQ-9s have been operating out of an airport in Arba Minch, Ethiopia. A U.S. Embassy spokesman told The Associated Press by email that Washington has shut down the drone operations in the country.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Ridgeway [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons